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.

Received 7 October 2002 ,Revised 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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