ReviewJournal of the American Geriatrics Society2014
A modern-day purgatory: older adults in the emergency department with nonoperative injuries.
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- The Whittington Frailty Pathway: improving access to comprehensive geriatric assessment: an interdisciplinary quality improvement project.BMJ open quality · 2019Article
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- Measuring Frailty Can Help Emergency Departments Identify Independent Seniors at Risk of Functional Decline After Minor Injuries.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2017Article
- Outcomes associated with observation versus short-stay admission among chest pain patients in the Veterans Health Administration.BMC emergency medicine · 2016Article
- A novel organizational model to face the challenge of multimorbid elderly patients in an internal medicine setting: a case study from Parma Hospital, Italy.Internal and emergency medicine · 2016Article
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Abstract
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 individuals typically do not meet criteria for hospital admission, but because of limited reimbursement for observation, admitting physicians are often reluctant to accept these individuals for observation. Admission to a skilled nursing or assisted living facility from the ED or rapid access to additional in-home care is also often difficult or impossible. As a result, older adults with nonoperative injuries often spend a long time in the ED waiting for an appropriate disposition. The challenges of identifying an appropriate disposition for these individuals, the consequences for patients, and some potential solutions to this commonly encountered problem are described.
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