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Breaks in continuity of care and the rural senior transferred for medical care under regionalisation

Continuity of care, defined as the patient experiencing coherent care over time and place, is challenged when a rural senior with multiple medical problems is transferred to a regional hospital for acute care. From an illustrative case of an older patient with pneumonia and atrial fibrillation, we c...

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Autores principales: Jay Biem, H., Hadjistavropoulos, H., Morgan, Debra, Biem, Henry B., Pong, Raymond W.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Igitur, Utrecht Publishing & Archiving 2003
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1483941/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16896374