Comment on “Factors Associated with Potentially Inappropriate Transfer to the Emergency Department Among Nursing Home Residents”

We read with great interest the article by Rolland et al regarding the factors associated with inappropriate transfer of nursing home residents to the emergency department.1 The authors found that 21% of transfers were potentially inappropriate. In 2013, we conducted a multicenter study of the same design with a similar number of participants (1000) of comparable age (mean 87 years of age) in Burgundy (eastern France). Our results showed that 18.1% of admissions were inappropriate,2 which is close to the rate reported by Rolland et al.