Nursing home patients and Emergency Department attendance in a single urban Irish catchment area: an observational study surrounding the introduction of a community medicine for older person service.

This is the first Irish study of NH ED utilization over an extended period. ED attendances PBC have not decreased since the introduction of the CMOP. Discharges PBC, however, have decreased and may represent a decrease in potentially preventable attendance/improvement in appropriateness of ED transfers, following the introduction of this intervention.