Establishing a Case‐Finding and Referral System for At‐Risk Older Individuals in the Emergency Department Setting: The SIGNET Model
- 1 October 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
- Vol. 49 (10) , 1379-1386
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1532-5415.2001.49270.x
Abstract
Older emergency department (ED) patients have complex medical, social, and physical problems. We established a program at four ED sites to improve case finding of at‐risk older adults and provide com...Keywords
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