(Source: American College of Emergency Physicians) Jun 27, 2013 WASHINGTON, June 27, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Emergency patients over the age of 74 have significantly different and more complex health and social needs than their younger counterparts, even after controlling for illness severity, which has important implications about aging populations and emergency departments of the future. The results of the most extensive international study of the characteristics and outcomes of older emergency patients to be reported to date were published online Tuesday in Annals of Emergency...
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