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Triage of Older ED Patients

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Geriatric Emergency Medicine

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ED triage is the process of quickly sorting patients to determine the priority for further evaluation and care at the time of patient arrival in the emergency department [1]. This definition of ED triage by the ACEP/ENA Five-level Triage Task Force is universally applicable for all ED patients irrespective of their complaint or age. However, adherence to all aspects of this definition often becomes challenging when older ED patients present at the ED front door.

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  1. Department of Emergency Medicine, University Hospital Basel, Petersgraben 2, CH-4032, Basel, Switzerland

    Florian F. Grossmann MSc

  2. Emergency Department, University Hospital Basel, Petersgraben 2, CH-4032, Basel, Switzerland

    Christian Nickel MD

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  1. Emergency Department, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

    Christian Nickel

  2. Department of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Abdelouahab Bellou

  3. Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK

    Simon Conroy

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Grossmann, F.F., Nickel, C. (2018). Triage of Older ED Patients. In: Nickel, C., Bellou, A., Conroy, S. (eds) Geriatric Emergency Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19318-2_2

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