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Shortening older in-patients’ stay by at least one day through direct geriatric unit admission using virtual emergency medicine tools

2024-04-17

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Introduction Virtual emergency medicine (VEM) was introduced to improve ambulance and emergency-department flow through video calls with paramedics before hospital arrival. That way, acute geriatric patients may be referred from the Fiona Stanley Tertiary Hospital VEM service to the Rapid Assessment and Treatment Unit (RATU) at Fremantle Hospital, a specialised centre for geriatric care...

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DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-3993801/v1

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