Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of early assisted discharge for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease exacerbations: the design of a randomised controlled trial

BACKGROUND: Exacerbations of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) are the main cause for hospitalisation. These hospitalisations result in a high pressure on hospital beds and high health care costs. Because of the increasing prevalence of COPD this will only become worse. Hospital at home i...

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Autores principales: Utens, Cecile MA, Goossens, Lucas MA, Smeenk, Frank WJM, van Schayck, Onno CP, van Litsenburg, Walter, Janssen, Annet, van Vliet, Monique, Seezink, Wiel, Demunck, Dirk RAJ, van de Pas, Brigitte, de Bruijn, Peter J, van der Pouw, Anouschka, Retera, Jeroen MAM, de Laat-Bierings, Petra, van Eijsden, Loes, Braken, Maria, Eijsermans, Riet, Rutten-van Mölken, Maureen PMH
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
Materias:
Study Protocol
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2965725/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20955582
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-10-618

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