Optimal Older Adult Emergency Care: Introducing Multidisciplinary Geriatric Emergency Department Guidelines from the American College of Emergency Physicians, American Geriatrics Society, Emergency Nurses Association, and Society for Academic Emergency Medicine

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Titel: Optimal Older Adult Emergency Care: Introducing Multidisciplinary Geriatric Emergency Department Guidelines from the American College of Emergency Physicians, American Geriatrics Society, Emergency Nurses Association, and Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
Beteiligte: Carpenter, Christopher R.; Bromley, Marilyn; Caterino, Jeffrey M.; Chun, Audrey; Gerson, Lowell W.; Greenspan, Jason; Hwang, Ula; John, David P.; Lyons, William L.; Platts‐Mills, Timothy F.; Mortensen, Betty; Ragsdale, Luna; Rosenberg, Mark; Wilber, Scott
Erschienen: Wiley, 2014
Erschienen in: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Sprache: Englisch
DOI: 10.1111/jgs.12883
ISSN: 0002-8614; 1532-5415
Schlagwörter: Geriatrics and Gerontology
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