Elderly patients visiting the emergency department for deliberate self-poisoning: do they present a more severe poisoning severity score than the nonelderly patients in the initial 24 h?

CONCLUSION: Elderly patients who visited the ED for DSP exhibited overall more severe PSSs and poorer in-hospital prognosis than did nonelderly DSP patients.
PMID: 30350034 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Aging Clinical and Experimental Research - October 22, 2018 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Hong S, Lee WJ, Kim DH, Seol SH, Lee JY, In SK, Lee HW, Woo SH, Wee JH Tags: Aging Clin Exp Res Source Type: research