La Revue de médecine interne
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Emergency departments become a useful way to access to hospital care. Since these last years difficulties of hospitalization, mainly of the elderly, after visit to the emergency department, are on the increase. ⋯ This situation must allow us to purpose a better regulation of hospitalizations which includes emergency departments in a network system including the different hospital ways of taking care. A downstream way of care adapted to the emergency hospitalizations would be developed. This could include the emergency department, the observation unit and the emergency short stay unit in interface with internal medicine and general medicine units, geriatric unit and specialized units, all of them will be included in a town-hospital care network.