Elder Care in an Emergency Department: How does Disparity in Practice Come to be?

Elder Care in an Emergency Department: How does Disparity in Practice Come to be?

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Elderly patients in the Emergency Department (ED) receive a different level of care than younger patients. The ED disproportionately deploys resources to serve the needs of the younger patient population, a decision that appears to be mediated by the acuity of the patient’s condition as defined by t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Adam, Simon
Other Authors: Burstow, Bonnie
Language:en_ca
Published: 2011
Subjects:
Institutional ethnography
Dorothy Smith
Texts
Ruling Relations
Qualitative
Emergency Department
Elderly
Elder Care
Social Analysis
Work Organization
Institution
Health Care
0534
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/26545

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http://hdl.handle.net/1807/26545

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