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ecj-4173	Cervellin, Gianfranco; Casagranda, Ivo; Piccioni, Pierdante; Ricci, Giorgio; Benatti, Mario; Pesenti Compagnoni, Massimo	Emergency physicians’ and nurses’ perception of quality of elderly care in the Emergency Department. Results of a national survey	2014	3	.pdf	application/pdf	2457	106	55	The questions were the following: 1=In your ED the elderly care has the same quality of adult care; 2=Competence and communication attitudes of emergency health care profession- als are the same with elderly and adult patients; 3=Health and social recordings of elderly patients referred to the ED by their general practitioners are generally of good quality; 4=Health and social recordings of elderly patients referred to the ED by nursing homes are generally of good quality; 5=Medical causes for non specific, typically geriatric, presenta- tions (i.e., delirium, falls, hypokynesis) are sys- tematically investigated; 6=The willingness to admit elderly patients to medical wards is the same as for adult patients; 7=During ED process basic needs of elderly patients (i.e., meals, hygiene, micturition, evacuation) are always met; 8=In your ED objectives tools (i.e., scores) for functional, cognitive and social evaluation of elderly patients are generally used; 9=In your opinion in daily routine it would be possible to use objectives tools (i.e., scores) in functional, cognitive and social eval- uation of elderly patients; 10=It would be use- ful to use objectives tools (i.e., scores) for func- tional, cognitive and social evaluation of elder- ly patients in daily routine; 11=Before dis- charging an elderly patient, in your ED a quick functional, cognitive and social evaluation is generally performed; 12=The patient age influ- ences by itself the triage priority code, or some different priorities are given to the elderly if the triage code is the same; 13=In your Hospital elderly-specific diagnostic and therapeutic post- discharge pathways are generally provided; 14 This population is admitted to the ED more often than younger adults, and often presents higher level of acu- ity, more severe medical conditions, a large number of comorbidities, which require a large volume of testing since older patients are more prone to be admitted and are at higher risk of death.3,4 Since the number of elderly patients presenting to overcrowded EDs seems to be destined to further increase, the compre- hensive care of these patients is emerging as a crucial issue in the field of emergency medi- cine.3,4 Hence, some authors have recently hypothesized that the emergency care offered to elderly patients may be characterized by poorer quality compared to that administered to younger adults.5	cache/ecj-4173.pdf	txt/ecj-4173.txt