Quality care for older people with urgent and emergency care needs in UK emergency departments

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 699-700

  Banerjee, Jay ^a,b   Conroy, Simon ^c   Cooke, Matthew W ^d  

^a INSTITUTE FOR HEALTHCARE IMPROVEMENT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF LEICESTER NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS BIRMINGHAM NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEMENTIA; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; FALLING; FRAGILITY FRACTURE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; NOTE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SOCIAL CARE; TERMINAL CARE; UNITED KINGDOM; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

AGED; CLINICAL CARE; CLINICAL MANAGEMENT; EMERGENCY CARE SYSTEMS, EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS; EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT MANAGEMENT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; STATE MEDICINE;

EID: 84882455100     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: 14720213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emermed-2012-202080     Document Type: Note

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