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Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment in the Emergency Department

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Many older people who are admitted to hospital come via the emergency department which is a key interface in the health and social care system where older people with crises can be assessed. So it is important that emergency departments are appropriately supported in the management of older people.

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  1. Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Academic Centre for Nursing and Midwifery, KU Leuven, Kapucijnenvoer 35/4, 3000, Leuven, Belgium

    Els Devriendt

  2. Department of Geriatric Medicine, University Hospitals Leuven, Herestraat 49, 3000, Leuven, Belgium

    Els Devriendt

  3. Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

    Simon Conroy

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    Christian Nickel

  2. Department of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Abdelouahab Bellou

  3. Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK

    Simon Conroy

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Devriendt, E., Conroy, S. (2018). Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment in the Emergency Department. In: Nickel, C., Bellou, A., Conroy, S. (eds) Geriatric Emergency Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19318-2_6

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