Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
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Acad Emerg Med
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To determine which characteristics of older patients who use a hospital ED are associated with repeat visits during the 90 days following the index visit. ⋯ Self-reported risk factors can help to identify a group of elders likely to make repeated ED visits; the development of a screening instrument incorporating questions on these problems and implementation of appropriate interventions might improve these patients' quality of life and reduce the demand for further ED care in this age group.