Background: fainting and falls are common symptoms in older adults.Background: fainting and falls are common symptoms in older adults. Dedicated facilities for these symptoms are emerging in the UK To date, justification for resource allocation for these day case facilities is lacking. A dedicated fainting fit and falls day case facility for older adults was place up in Newcastle in 1991 (at the Royal Victoria Infirmary). The facility provided rapid access for assessment of appropriate patients from the community, the accident and unforeseen occasion department, or emergency admissions. Activity and performance in 1999 were compared with lord inner-city teaching hospitals and with previous performance in 1990 at the Royal Victoria Infirmary to determine whether the facility had influenced conjuncture activity. COPYRIGHT 2002 Oxford University Press |
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