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Can dedicated emergency team and area for older people reduce the hospital admission rate? - An observational pre- and post-intervention study

BACKGROUND: Emergency department (ED) care of older patients is often complex. Geriatric ED guidelines can help to meet this challenge. However, training requirements, the use of time-consuming tools for comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA), a lack of golden standard to identify the frail patien...

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Autores principales: Liu, Jenny, Palmgren, Therese, Ponzer, Sari, Masiello, Italo, Farrokhnia, Nasim
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7877031/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33568087
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-021-02044-w