Emergency department use and length of stay by younger and older adults: Nottingham cohort study in the emergency department (NOCED).

Background: Younger and older adults attending the Emergency Department (ED) are a heterogeneous population. Longer length of ED stay is associated with adverse outcomes and may vary by age.

Aims: To evaluate the associations between age and (1) clinical characteristics and (2) length of ED stay among adults attending ED.

Time-critical telephone conversations in the emergency department: lessons learnt from a pilot educational project to improve communication skills over the telephone in response to the COVID-19 global pandemic.

In many countries, the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in restricted hospital visiting by relatives.Staff have been forced to deliver unwelcome and bad news over the telephone. There are few training resources around how to do this.

What older people want from emergency care: a systematic review.

Objectives: To evaluate the expectations and preferred outcomes from emergency care among older people or their caregivers.

Methods: A review protocol was registered. Medline, Embase, CINAHL, PsychInfo, BNI, AgeInfo and the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews were searched in their full date ranges to September 2018.