The ED use and non-urgent visits of elderly patients
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The ED use and non-urgent visits of elderly patients
OBJECTIVE To evaluate the use of the emergency department (ED) by elderly patients, their non-urgent visits and the prevalence of main disease for ED visits. METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted on patients aged 65 years and over who visited the ED of a tertiary care university hospital in Turkey between January 2015 and January 2016 retrospectively. RESULTS A total of 36,369 el...
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عنوان ژورنال: Turkish Journal of Emergency Medicine
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2452-2473
DOI: 10.1016/j.tjem.2016.08.004