The Keio journal of medicine
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Comparative Study
Characteristics of elderly patients presenting to the emergency department with injury.
In Japan, emergency departments (ED) receive a large proportion of elderly patients each year. As such, injuries in the elderly are a common reason for presentation to the ED. Knowledge about the characteristics of injuries presenting to the ED would be invaluable in devising strategies to prevent injury in the elderly. ⋯ Elderly injury patients are a distinct group with distinctive demographics, mechanism of injury and outcomes. This information would be useful in the planning of injury prevention programs, with particular emphasis on elderly females and MVA-unrelated trauma.