A Modern-Day Purgatory: Older Emergency Department Patients with Non-Operative Injuries

Older adults frequently present to the emergency department (ED) with injuries that do not require operative treatment but are sufficiently severe to make it unsafe for them to return home. These patients typically do not meet criteria for an ‘inpatient’ hospital admission. However, because of the l...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS) 2014-01, Vol.62 (3), p.525-528
Hauptverfasser:	Platts-Mills, Timothy F., Owens, Scott T., McBride, J. Marvin
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
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