Referral patterns in elderly emergency department visits

Referral patterns in elderly emergency department visits

OBJECTIVE: To assess elderly individuals' demand for emergency department (ED) care, in terms of the characteristics, processes, outcomes, costs by referral pattern. DATA SOURCE: All ED visits involving patients aged 65 and older, extracted from the 2010 dataset of an Local Health Agency, in No...

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Main Authors: Alessandra Buja, Marco Fusco, Patrizia Furlan, Chiara Bertoncello, Tatjana Baldovin, Patrizia Casale, Adriano Marcolongo, Vincenzo Baldo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Istituto Superiore di Sanità 2013-12-01
Series:Annali dell'Istituto Superiore di Sanità
Subjects:
older age
health care survey
delivery of care
appropriateness of emergency health care
administrative database
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