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- Joseph H Kahn and Brendan Magauran.
- Department of Emergency Medicine, Boston Medical Center, 1 Boston Medical Center Place, Boston, MA 02118-2393, USA. jkahn@bu.edu
- Emerg. Med. Clin. North Am. 2006 May 1; 24 (2): 243-60, v.
AbstractTo 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.
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