Emergency Medicine: Open Access
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Ravishankar Jayadevappa

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• Editorial
  Quality of Emergency Department Care for Elderly
  Author(s): Ravishankar Jayadevappa Ravishankar Jayadevappa
  
  With the aging of the population and the demographic shift of elderly in the healthcare system, the emergency departments will be increasingly challenged with complexities of providing care to geriatric patients. Major consumers of emergency health care in the U.S. hospitals are over 65 years old [1]. In 2009, 25% of adults aged 65 years or older had at least one emergency department visit in the past year, and 8% had multiple visits [1]. Rate of emergency room visits by the elderly grew 34 percent during the decade 1993 to 2006, faster than any other group [2]. Projections are that if this trend continues, visits by the elderly could nearly double by 2013 to 11.7 million, up from 6.4 million in 2003 [2]. Another dimension to the emergency department care is the presence of racial differences in usage. Visits for black elderly during the 10-year time period studied increased 93 percen.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2165-7548.1000e107

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