RESEARCHComparing Strategies for Identifying Falls in Older Adult Emergency Department Visits Using EHR Data

Brian W Patterson^{1

2

3}, Gwen Costa Jacobsohn¹, Apoorva P Maru¹, Arjun K Venkatesh⁴, Maureen A Smith², Manish N Shah^{1

5

6}, Eneida A Mendonça^{7

8}

Affiliations

¹ BerbeeWalsh Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin.
² Health Innovation Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin.
³ Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin.
⁴ Department of Emergency Medicine and Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
⁵ Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology, Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin.
⁶ Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin.
⁷ Department of Pediatrics and Biostatistics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana.
⁸ Regenstrief Institute, Indianapolis, Indiana.

Observational Study

Brian W Patterson et al. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2020 Dec.

. 2020 Dec;68(12):2965-2967.

doi: 10.1111/jgs.16831. Epub 2020 Sep 20.

Brian W Patterson^{1

2

3}, Gwen Costa Jacobsohn¹, Apoorva P Maru¹, Arjun K Venkatesh⁴, Maureen A Smith², Manish N Shah^{1

5

6}, Eneida A Mendonça^{7

8}

¹ BerbeeWalsh Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin.
² Health Innovation Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin.
³ Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin.
⁴ Department of Emergency Medicine and Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
⁵ Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology, Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin.
⁶ Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin.
⁷ Department of Pediatrics and Biostatistics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana.
⁸ Regenstrief Institute, Indianapolis, Indiana.

No abstract available

Conflict of interest statement

STATEMENTS OF CONFLICTS OF INTEREST: No conflicts of interest to declare

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