Referral patterns in elderly emergency department visits

• Main Authors: Alessandra Buja (Author), Marco Fusco (Author), Patrizia Furlan (Author), Chiara Bertoncello (Author), Tatjana Baldovin (Author), Patrizia Casale (Author), Adriano Marcolongo (Author), Vincenzo Baldo (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Istituto Superiore di Sanità, 2013-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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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...