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Profile of Geriatric Patients Attending the Emergency Department of a Tertiary Care Hospital in Karachi: A Cross-Sectional Study

Background and Objectives The emergency department (ED) is the most important unit of a hospital and is often visited by an ever-increasing proportion of geriatric patients. However, in Pakistan, there is an inadequacy of geriatrics specialists. The objective of this study was to assess the profile...

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Autores principales:	Mushtaq, Saima, Abro, Muhammad Tarish, Sualeh, Muhammad, Uddin, Muhammad Roohan
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Cureus 2022
Materias:	Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8901140/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35273845 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.21874

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