Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 41, Issue 5 , Pages 678-684, May 2003

The effect of mental status screening on the care of elderly emergency department patients☆☆☆

This article was presented in part at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Scientific Assembly, St. Louis, MO, May 2002.

Department of Emergency Medicine, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation (Hustey); the Department of Emergency Medicine, MetroHealth Medical Center (Meldon); and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine (Smith, Lex), Cleveland, OH.

Received 7 October 2002; received in revised form 22 November 2002; accepted 4 December 2002.

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☆ Dr. Meldon was supported in part by an American Geriatrics Society/Hartford Foundation Jahnigen Career Development Scholars Award.

☆☆ Address for reprints: Fredric M. Hustey, MD, Department of Emergency Medicine-E-19, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 9500 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44195; 216-445-4558, fax 216-444-1703; E-mail husteyf@ccf.org .

PII: S0196-0644(03)00168-9

doi:10.1067/mem.2003.152

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 41, Issue 5 , Pages 678-684, May 2003

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