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Linking the elderly to community services.

Sometimes, the only contact elderly patients have with outside medical services is through the EMS network. Find out how one city uses prehospital providers to link these patients with community services tailored to their needs.

Tags: *Social Support, 1991, Aged, Community Health Services/*organization & administration, Department of Family & Community Medicine, Emergency Medical Services/*organization & administration, Forms and Records Control, Gerson L W, Health Services for the Aged/*organization & administration, Hoover R, Humans, Interinstitutional Relations, JEMS : a journal of emergency medical services, McCoy S, NEOMED College of Medicine, Ohio, Organizational Innovation, Palmisano B, Referral and Consultation

Recreational injuries among older Americans, 2001.

OBJECTIVE: To describe the epidemiology of non-fatal recreational injuries among older adults treated in United States emergency departments including national estimates of the number of injuries, types of recreational activities, and diagnoses.…

Tags: *Recreation, 2004, 80 and over, Age Distribution, Aged, Athletic Injuries/epidemiology, Bone/epidemiology, Emergencies, Exercise, Female, Fractures, Gerson L W, Humans, Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention, Male, Sex Distribution, Stevens J A, United States/epidemiology, Wounds and Injuries/*epidemiology

Intranasal lidocaine for the treatment of migraine headache: a randomized, controlled trial.

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effect of intranasal lidocaine for immediate relief (5 minutes) of migraine headache pain. METHODS: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial at two university-affiliated community teaching hospitals…

Do elder emergency department patients and their informants agree about the elder's functioning?

OBJECTIVE: To compare elder patients' and their informants' ratings of the elder's physical and mental function measured by a standard instrument, the Medical Outcomes Study Short Form 12 (SF-12). METHODS: This was a randomized, cross-sectional study…

Multicenter study of case finding in elderly emergency department patients.

OBJECTIVES: To assess the feasibility of a brief comprehensive case-finding program for detecting functional, cognitive, and social impairments among elderly ED patients and to estimate the prevalence of unknown, undetected, or untreated impairments…

Directing an emergency medicine residency: the problems and their potential solutions.

OBJECTIVE: To characterize the problems facing emergency medicine residency directors (EMRDs), to describe potential solutions, and to associate perceptions with anticipated duration in the position of EMRD. METHODS: A confidential questionnaire was…

Tags: 1995, Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Adult, Department of Emergency Medicine, Emergency Medicine/*education, Female, Gerson L W, Humans, Internship and Residency/*organization & administration, Job Satisfaction, Kuhn G, Male, Middle Aged, NEOMED College of Medicine, Physician Executives/*statistics & numerical data, United States, Weigand J

The bronchodilator effect of intravenous glucagon in asthma exacerbation: a randomized, controlled trial.

STUDY OBJECTIVE: Glucagon is a rapid-acting smooth muscle relaxant with a short half-life. Previous studies suggested glucagon may have bronchodilator effects. We sought to determine whether intravenous glucagon produces clinically important…

Response error in self-reported current smoking frequency by black and white established smokers.

As compared with white smokers, black smokers, although they report using fewer cigarettes per day, are at higher risk for most smoking-related diseases. Among black smokers serum cotinine levels are also higher in proportion to cigarettes per day;…

Tags: *African Americans, *European Continental Ancestry Group, 1996, Adult, Analysis of Variance, Annals of epidemiology, Bias, Clark P I, Cotinine/*analysis, Female, Gautam S P, Gerson L W, Hlaing W M, Humans, Incidence, Male, Reproducibility of Results, Smoking/*epidemiology/ethnology, Surveys and Questionnaires

Medical care use by treated and untreated substance abusing medicaid patients.

Medicaid reimbursement costs for county residents at least 18 years old who used a treatment service (n = 1043) and residents who were Medicaid enrollees with a substance abuse diagnosis but who did not receive treatment (n = 2125) were compared.…

Case finding for cognitive impairment in elderly emergency department patients.

STUDY OBJECTIVES: To determine the feasibility of a case-finding program for cognitive impairment in elderly emergency department patients, and to describe the prevalence of cognitive impairment in screened patients and identify factors associated…

Using paramedics to identify at-risk elderly.

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate paramedics' ability to identify elderly at risk and refer them for assessment and service. DESIGN: A prospective nonrandomized open trial. SETTING: Akron, Ohio, a midsize city with a well-developed advanced life support…

Tags: *Emergency Medical Technicians, *Geriatric Assessment, 1992, Aged, Annals of emergency medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Female, Gerson L W, Humans, Male, NEOMED College of Medicine, Ohio, Predictive Value of Tests, Prospective Studies, Records, Risk Factors, Schelble D T, Wilson J E

Difficulty in predicting bacteremia in elderly emergency patients.

STUDY OBJECTIVES: To characterize the clinical presentation and identify factors predictive of bacteremia in elderly patients. DESIGN: Retrospective review of emergency department charts, hospital records, and microbiology reports. SETTING: Community…

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