Elder Abuse Often Missed In ER

Written by SAFE on January 18, 2017. Posted in News Articles

By WEBMD on 11/25/2016

“…”These findings indicate that the vast majority of victims of elder abuse pass through the emergency department without the problem being identified,” study senior author Dr. Timothy Platts-Mills, an assistant professor of emergency medicine at the University of North Carolina’s School of Medicine, said in a school news release. …”

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