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The growing impact of older patients in the Emergency Department: a 5-year retrospective analysis in Brazil

2020-06-01

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<title>Abstract</title> <p><bold>Background: </bold>The average age of the global population is rising at an increasing rate. There is a disproportional increase in Emergency Department (ED) visits by older people worldwide. In the Brazilian health system, complex and severely ill patients and those requiring specialized urgent procedures are referred to tertiary level care. As far as we know, no other study in L...

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Literature Corpus work: 6c3ea372-ca4b-5a89-950d-6eb811f46cda
DOI: 10.21203/rs.2.19946/v3

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