Profiles of older patients in the emergency department: Findings from the interrai multinational emergency department study

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 467-474

  Gray, Leonard C ^a   Peel, Nancye M ^a   Costa, Andrew P ^b,c   Burkett, Ellen ^d   Dey, Aparajit B ^e   Jonsson, Palmi V ^f   Lakhan, Prabha ^a   Ljunggren, Gunnar ^g,h,i   Sjostrand, Fredrik ^i,j   Swoboda, Walter ^k   Wellens, Nathalie I H ^l   Hirdes, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d PRINCESS ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^e ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^f LANDSPITALI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Iceland)

^g STOCKHOLM COUNTY COUNCIL   (Sweden)

^h Med Cent   (Sweden)

ⁱ KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^j STOCKHOLM SÖDER HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^k UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^l UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADL DISABILITY; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BELGIUM; CANADA; COGNITIVE DEFECT; EMERGENCY PATIENT; EMERGENCY WARD; FALLING; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; GERMANY; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; ICELAND; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SWEDEN; WALKING DIFFICULTY;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT DISCHARGE SUMMARIES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84886951763     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2013.05.008     Document Type: Article

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