Does code status clarification for elderly patients being admitted from the emergency department make a difference?

Carl Pafford¹, Amber R Comer^{2

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4}, Daniel Slubowski¹, Laurae Rettig¹, Benton R Hunter¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Emergency Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
² American Medical Association, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
³ Department of Health Sciences, Indiana University School of Health and Human Sciences, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
⁴ Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.

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Carl Pafford et al. Acad Emerg Med. 2024 Oct.

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. 2024 Oct;31(10):1058-1061.

doi: 10.1111/acem.14936. Epub 2024 May 6.

Carl Pafford¹, Amber R Comer^{2

3

4}, Daniel Slubowski¹, Laurae Rettig¹, Benton R Hunter¹

¹ Department of Emergency Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
² American Medical Association, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
³ Department of Health Sciences, Indiana University School of Health and Human Sciences, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
⁴ Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.

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