Emergency department use by oldest-old patients from 2005 to 2010 in a Swiss university hospital

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Vilpert, Sarah ^a,c   Ruedin, Hélène Jaccard ^b   Trueb, Lionel ^b   Monod Zorzi, Stéfanie ^b   Yersin, Bertrand ^b   Büla, Christophe ^c  

^a Swiss Health Observatory   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Elderly; Emergency department; Health care utilization; Population aging

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS; SWITZERLAND; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; UTILIZATION REVIEW; VERY ELDERLY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; MALE; SEX FACTORS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84883501355     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-13-344     Document Type: Article

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