Detection of Older People at Increased Risk of Adverse Health Outcomes After an Emergency Visit: The ISAR Screening Tool

McCusker, Jane; Bellavance, François; Cardin, Sylvie; Trepanier, Sylvain; Verdon, Josée; Ardman, Orly

doi:10.1111/j.1532-5415.1999.tb05204.x

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Detection of Older People at Increased Risk of Adverse Health Outcomes After an Emergency Visit: The ISAR Screening Tool

Published in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society • Oct 1, 1999

Authors:

Jane McCusker

François Bellavance

Sylvie Cardin

Abstract

OBJECTIVES: To develop a self-report screening tool to identify older people in the emergency department (ED) of a hospital at increased risk of adverse health outcomes, including: death, admission to a nursing home or long-term hospitalization, or a clinically significant decrease in functional sta...

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Medicine

Emergency department

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