Emergency department management of older people living with frailty: a guide for emergency practitioners

Vera M Hogervorst; Bianca M Buurman; Annemarieke De Jonghe; James David van Oppen; Christian Hans Nickel; Jacinta Lucke; Laura C Blomaard; Arjun Thaur; Simon P Mooijaart; Jay Banerjee; James Wallace; Bas de Groot; Simon Paul Conroy

doi:10.1136/emermed-2020-210014

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Emergency department management of older people living with frailty: a guide for emergency practitioners

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Vera M Hogervorst Department of Geriatric Medicine, Tergooi Hospital, Hilversum, The Netherlands Internal Medicine, Section of Geriatric Medicine, Amsterdam UMC - Locatie AMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Bianca M Buurman Internal Medicine, Section of Geriatric Medicine, Amsterdam UMC - Locatie AMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Annemarieke De Jonghe Department of Geriatric Medicine, Tergooi Hospital, Hilversum, The Netherlands PubMed articles Google scholar articles
James David van Oppen Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK Emergency & Specialist Medicine, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Christian Hans Nickel Department of Emergency Medicine, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Jacinta Lucke Department of Emergency Medicine, Spaarne Gasthuis, Haarlem, The Netherlands PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Laura C Blomaard Department of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Arjun Thaur Department of Emergency Medicine, Guy's and Saint Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, London, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Simon P Mooijaart Department of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Jay Banerjee Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK Department of Emergency Medicine, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
James Wallace Department of Emergency Medicine, Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Warrington, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Bas de Groot Department of Emergency Medicine, Leids Universitair Medisch Centrum, Leiden, The Netherlands PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Simon Paul Conroy Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles

Correspondence to Vera M Hogervorst, Department of Geriatric Medicine, Tergooi Hospital, Hilversum, The Netherlands; vhogervorst{at}tergooi.nl

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Hogervorst VM, Buurman BM, De Jonghe A, et al

Emergency department management of older people living with frailty: a guide for emergency practitioners

Emergency Medicine Journal 2021;38:724-729.

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Received May 18, 2020
Revised March 9, 2021
Accepted March 31, 2021
First published April 21, 2021.

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January 10, 2022

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