Medical History of Elderly Patients in the Emergency Setting: Not an Easy Point-of-Care Diagnostic Marker

Background. Medical histories are a crucially important diagnostic tool. Elderly patients represent a large and increasing group of emergency patients. Due to cognitive deficits, taking a reliable medical history in this patient group can be difficult. We sought to evaluate the medical history-taki...

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Main Authors: Tobias Lindner, Anna Slagman, Arthur Senkin, Martin Möckel, Julia Searle
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2015-01-01
Series:Emergency Medicine International
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/490947
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