Does Having More Admission Diagnoses Increase the Accuracy Rate for Elderly Patients in the Emergency Department?

Background: Increasing the accuracy rate of diagnosis at admission to the emergency department is always an important issue for emergency physicians. Those patients, particularly the elderly, who do not have typical symptoms or obvious ailments, are quite difficult to accurately diagnose, which infl...

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Main Authors: Wen-Han Chang, Chien-Hsuan Huang, Cheng-Ho Tsai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taiwan Society of Geriatric Emergency and Critical Medicine (TSGECM) 2010-03-01
Series:International Journal of Gerontology
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1873959810700168