Medical History of Elderly Patients in the Emergency Setting: Not an Easy Point-of-Care Diagnostic Marker
Background. Medical histories are a crucially important diagnostic tool. Elderly patients represent a large and increasing group of emergency patients. Due to cognitive deficits, taking a reliable medical history in this patient group can be difficult. We sought to evaluate the medical history-taki...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Hindawi Limited
2015-01-01
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| Series: | Emergency Medicine International |
| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/490947 |