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Characteristics and Mortality of Older Adults Presenting to the Emergency Department With Generalized Weakness

2020-07-30

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Background Worldwide aging of the population leads to an increased number of older, more complicated patients attending emergency departments (ED). Presenting symptoms of various conditions can be vague in this population, leading to delayed and potentially missed diagnoses. In the current study, we sought to characterize the demographics, final diagnoses, and outcomes of older patient...

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Literature Corpus work: 3984a566-70d0-5155-bc58-78b7eb10f370
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-49203/v1

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