Residential aged care homes: Why do they call '000'? A study of the emergency prehospital care of older people living in residential aged care homes.
Rosamond A DwyerBelinda J GabbeThach TranKaren SmithJudy A LowthianPublished in: Emergency medicine Australasia : EMA (2020)
This is the first study to describe emergency prehospital care, case-mix and intervention of frail, older people living in RAC. These results demonstrate a clinically complex group of people with high rates of comorbidity, cognitive impairment and polypharmacy. These valuable data will inform education and training of prehospital clinicians, assist in targeting preventative medicine and primary care programmes and further development of alternate, acute and emergency care pathways for this unique patient group.
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