Screening for older emergency department inpatients at risk of prolonged hospital stay: the brief geriatric assessment tool.

The aims of this study were 1) to confirm that combinations of brief geriatric assessment (BGA) items were significant risk factors for prolonged LHS among geriatric patients hospitalized in acute care medical units after their admission to the emergency department (ED); and 2) to determine whether...

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Main Authors: Cyrille P Launay, Laure de Decker, Anastasiia Kabeshova, Cédric Annweiler, Olivier Beauchet
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4198199?pdf=render