Variation in medication information for elderly patients during initial interventions by emergency department physicians.

Victor Cohen; Samantha P. Jellinek; Antonios Likourezos; Ira Nemeth; Theodora Paul; Daniel R. Murphy

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Variation in medication information for elderly patients during initial interventions by emergency department physicians.

January 16, 2008

Cohen V, Jellinek SP, Likourezos A, et al. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2007;65(1):60-64.

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This study discovered that emergency department physicians are put in a position to diagnose and treat patients, yet only a third of these patients' medication information is readily available.

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