Objectives A significant proportion of geriatric patients experience suboptimal outcomes
following episodes of emergency department (ED) care. Risk stratification screening …

Altered mental status is a common chief complaint among older patients in the emergency
department (ED). Despite the frequency of this complaint, the term “altered mental status” is …

In the U nited S tates and around the world, effective, efficient, and reliable strategies to
provide emergency care to aging adults is challenging crowded emergency departments …

STUDY OBJECTIVE: We test predictive validity, interrater reliability, and diagnostic accuracy
of the Emergency Severity Index in older emergency department (ED) patients and identify …

ACADEMIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE 2011; 18: 374–384© 2011 by the Society for
Academic Emergency Medicine Abstract Background: Cognitive dysfunction, including …

Background Falls are the leading cause of traumatic mortality in geriatric adults. Despite
recent multispecialty guideline recommendations that advocate for proactive fall prevention …

Background Older adult delirium is often unrecognized in the emergency department (ED),
yet the most compelling research questions to overcome knowledge‐to‐practice deficits …

In this paper, we outline the relationship between the need to put existing applied health
research knowledge into practice (the 'know-do gap') and the need to improve the evidence …

STUDY OBJECTIVE:: We evaluate the diagnostic test characteristics of the Six-Item
Screener and the AD8 to detect cognitive dysfunction in adults older than 65 years and …

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