Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians position statement on care of older people in Canadian Emergency Departments: executive summary.

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14 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Best Evidence Summary for the Management of Frailty in Elderly Patients in Emergency Department-Integrative Review.Nursing open · 2026
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2. Physical and Occupational Therapist Evaluations for Fall Prevention in the Emergency Department: A Geriatric ED Guidelines 2.0 Systematic Review.Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine · 2026
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3. Examining the geriatric-friendliness of emergency departments in the Canadian province with the oldest population.CJEM · 2025
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4. Canadian Emergency Department Triage and Acuity Scale (CTAS) Guidelines 2025.CJEM · 2025
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5. Reimagining the emergency department team: time for a new teammate.CJEM · 2025
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6. Outcomes of Physical and Occupational Therapy Evaluation in the Emergency Department for Older Adults With Falls: A Retrospective Multicenter Cohort.Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open · 2025
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7. Team-based, Multidisciplinary Care in the Emergency Department.Emergency medicine clinics of North America · 2025
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8. Patterns of referral to interprofessional services among frail older adults presenting to emergency departments in Canada.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2025
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9. Emergency department crowding: An examination of older adults and vulnerability.Nursing ethics · 2025
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10. Implementing a new patient navigator model of care within the emergency department for older adults in Ontario, Canada.PloS one · 2025
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11. Nonmedical problems among older adults visiting the emergency department for low acuity conditions: A prospective multicentre cohort study.Heliyon · 2024
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12. Strategies for improving ED-related outcomes of older adults who seek care in emergency departments: a systematic review.International journal of emergency medicine · 2024
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13. 'Community emergencies' and 'social admissions': so this is how we label and treat older adult patients in the emergency department?CJEM · 2023
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14. Agreement and prognostic accuracy of three ED vulnerability screeners: findings from a prospective multi-site cohort study.CJEM · 2023
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