Elder Abuse Identification in the Prehospital Setting: An Examination of State Emergency Medical Services Protocols.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To describe statewide emergency medical service (EMS) protocols relating to identification, management, and reporting of elder abuse in the prehospital setting.

Design

Cross-sectional analysis.

Setting

Statewide EMS protocols in the United States.

Participants

Publicly available statewide EMS protocols identified from published literature, http://EMSprotocols.org, and each state's public health website.

Measurements

Protocols were reviewed to determine whether elder abuse was mentioned, elder abuse was defined, potential indicators of elder abuse were listed, management of older adults experiencing abuse was described, and instructions regarding reporting were provided. EMS protocols for child abuse were reviewed in the same manner for the pur

SUBMITTER: Namboodri BL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5992078 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature