Title |
Older adults who persistently present to the emergency department with severe, non-severe, and indeterminate episode patterns
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Published in |
BMC Geriatrics, October 2011
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2318-11-65 |
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Authors |
Brian Kaskie, Maksym Obrizan, Michael P Jones, Suzanne Bentler, Paula Weigel, Jason Hockenberry, Robert B Wallace, Robert L Ohsfeldt, Gary E Rosenthal, Fredric D Wolinsky |
Abstract |
It is well known that older adults figure prominently in the use of emergency departments (ED) across the United States. Previous research has differentiated ED visits by levels of clinical severity and found health status and other individual characteristics distinguished severe from non-severe visits. In this research, we classified older adults into population groups that persistently present with severe, non-severe, or indeterminate patterns of ED episodes. We then contrasted the three groups using a comprehensive set of covariates. |
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