- Title
- Safe to send home? Discharge risk assessment in the emergency department
- Creator
- Southerland, Lauren T.; Pearson, Scott; Hullick, Carolyn; Carpenter, Christopher R.; Arendts, Glenn
- Relation
- Emergency Medicine Australasia Vol. 31, Issue 2, p. 266-270
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1742-6723.13250
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2019
- Description
- ‘An 88-year-old man who lives alone attends ED with cough, weakness and dyspnoea, which you diagnose as viral bronchitis. As an avid reader of the Acute Geriatric Series in Emergency Medicine Australasia, you identify that he scores 6 on the Clinical Frailty Scale, that is, he is moderately frail (needing help with all outside activities and with keeping house). You recognise that he is at increased risk in the short term if discharged, and wonder if he will be safer if admitted?’
- Subject
- safe to send home; discharge risk; emergency department; geriatrics
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1467236
- Identifier
- uon:47781
- Identifier
- ISSN:1742-6731
- Language
- eng
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