BRISBANE, Australia, July 4 (UPI) -- Older patients become more frail, confused and dependent on others after they have been treated in a hospital, a researcher in Australia says.
Lead study author Dr. Leonard C. Gray of the Center for Research in Geriatric Medicine at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, and colleagues examined medical records for 2,282 patients age 74 and older in 13 different emergency departments in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Iceland, India and Sweden.