It's time: Delivering optimal emergency care of residents of aged care facilities in the era of COVID‐19.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Burkett, Ellen; Carpenter, Christopher R; Hullick, Carolyn; Arendts, Glenn; Ouslander, Joseph G
- Source
- Emergency Medicine Australasia. Feb2021, Vol. 33 Issue 1, p131-137. 7p.
- Subject
- *EMERGENCY medical services
*COVID-19 testing
*MEDICAL care
*MEDICAL quality control
*PATIENT safety
*COVID-19 pandemic
- Language
- ISSN
- 1742-6731
The article offers information on delivering optimal emergency care of residents of aged care facilities in the era of COVID-19. Topics include the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 which manifests clinically as coronavirus disease has exposed the preexisting vulnerabilities in healthcare delivery to RACF residents, and mostly frail people with atypical disease presentations living amidst staff and resource shortages.