Journal article
Derivation and Validation of the Detection of Indicators and Vulnerabilities for Emergency Room Trips Scale for Classifying the Risk of Emergency Department Use in Frail Community‐Dwelling Older Adults
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: To develop and validate a prognostic case finding tool that classifies the risk of emergency department (ED) use in an older home care population.
DESIGN: Population-based retrospective cohort study using routinely collected data from home care clinical assessments linked prospectively to ED records.
Authors
Costa AP; Hirdes JP; Bell CM; Bronskill SE; Heckman GA; Mitchell L; Poss JW; Sinha SK; Stolee P
Journal
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, Vol. 63, No. 4, pp. 763–769
Publisher
Wiley
Publication Date
April 2015
DOI
10.1111/jgs.13336
ISSN
0002-8614