Hospital discharge planning and continuity of care for aged people in an Italian local health unit: does the care-home model reduce hospital readmission and mortality rates?

BACKGROUND: Hospital discharge planning is aimed to decrease length of stay in hospitals as well as to ensure continuity of health care after being discharged. Hospitalized patients in Turin, Italy, who are in need of medical, social and rehabilitative care are proposed as candidates to either disch...

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Autores principales: Damiani, Gianfranco, Federico, Bruno, Venditti, Antonella, Sicuro, Lorella, Rinaldi, Silvia, Cirio, Franco, Pregno, Cristiana, Ricciardi, Walter
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2649063/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19193242
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-9-22

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