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Fig. 1 | Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine

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From: Geriatric screening, fall characteristics and 3- and 12 months adverse outcomes in older patients visiting the emergency department with a fall

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Flowchart of study population. Legend: In total 2192 patients aged ≥70 years visited the EDs of the two hospitals during the inclusion periods. A total of 1965 (89.6%) patients were found eligible of whom 1632 (83.1%) patients were included in the study. Of 1632 included patients 393 (24.1%) patients had a fall-related ED visit and 1239 (75.9%) patients visited the ED without a fall-related problem. Whether the ED visit was fall related was obtained by asking the patient the question: “Is the reason for your ED visit related to a fall?”. After careful retrospective review of the medical files 10 patients switched to the group of patients without a fall-related ED visit

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Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine

ISSN: 1757-7241