Medical History of Elderly Patients in the Emergency Setting: Not an Easy Point-of-Care Diagnostic Marker

Table 1

Sources of information and time until successfully completed basic medical history ().

Source(s) of information	Relative frequency in %	Duration [min.]; Median (IQR); Minimum–maximum
Self-reported medical history only	15.4 ()	6 (5/10); 3–15
Self-reported medical history plus medical documentation	38.5 ()	11 (8/15); 4–26
Third-party medical history (GP)	8.7 ()	20 (15/81); 15–240
Third-party medical history (relatives)	4.8 ()	19 (14/43); 10–62
Data from hospital information system	0.1 ()	16
No source documented	6.7 ()	14 (12/19); 11–25

IQR:  interquartile range.