Older patients have an increased risk of in-hospital death and adverse events following overnight stays in the emergency department

Affiliations

• ¹ School of Nursing and Midwifery, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia rachel.muir@griffith.edu.au.
• ² Emergency Department, Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service, Southport, Queensland, Australia.
• ³ Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing Midwifery and Palliative Care, Kings College London, London, UK.
• ⁴ School of Nursing and Midwifery, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
• ⁵ Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, Griffith University Faculty of Health, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.