Emergency department falls: a longitudinal analysis of revisits and hospitalisations between patients who fall and patients who did not fall

OBJECTIVE: Older adult falls are a national issue comprising 3 million emergency department (ED) visits and significant mortality. We sought to understand whether ED revisits and hospitalisations for fallers differed from non-fall patients through a secondary analysis of a longitudinal, statewide co...

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Autores principales: Shankar, Kalpana N, Lin, Feng, Epino, Henry, Temin, Elizabeth, Liu, Shan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2020
Materias:
Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7733199/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33303454
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-041054

Internet

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7733199/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33303454
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-041054

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