Emergency care of older people who fall: a missed opportunity
Snooks, Helen Halter, Mary Close, Jacqueline Cheung, Wai Yee Roberts, Stephen E.
Snooks, Helen
Halter, Mary
Close, Jacqueline
Cheung, Wai Yee
Roberts, Stephen E.
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A high number of emergency (999) calls are made for older people who fall, with many patients not subsequently conveyed to hospital. Ambulance crews do not generally have protocols or training to leave people at home, and systems for referral are rare. The quality and safety of current practice is explored in this study, in which for the first time, the short-term outcomes of older people left at home by emergency ambulance crews after a fall are described. Results will inform the development of care for this population. https://qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/15/6/390 This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ DOI 10.1136/qshc.2006.018697