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Trends in geriatric emergency medicine.

Kahn JH, Magauran B

Department of Emergency Medicine, Boston Medical Center, 1 Boston Medical Center Place, Boston, MA 02118-2393, USA. jkahn@bu.edu

To better understand future emergency department use, it is valuable to analyze the current emergency department use rates of the geriatric population. This article reviews emergency department use by demographics, causes of death, principal reason for emergency department visits, number of emergency department visits per person per year, prescription drugs used, and recent trends in emergency department visits.

Published 4 April 2006 in Emerg Med Clin North Am, 24(2): 243-60, v.
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