Geriatric emergencies: psychiatric or medical?

摘要: To determine how the elderly use emergency room, authors compared patients 65 years old and older with younger in terms of demographics, clinical factors, patterns room use, clinicians' responses. They found that, like patients, had scanty social supports but, unlike came for care repeatedly somatic complaints. Despite coexisting medical psychiatric illnesses, these were generally managed by one service without consultation from other. The authors, who no differences physicians' attitudes toward emphasize need a holistic, psychobiologic approach to patient.