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Designing integrated care pathways to facilitate acute hospital discharge: the role of routinely available statistics

PURPOSE: Typically around 30% of acute beds used by older people deliver care that could be provided in ‘non-acute’ settings. Such ‘avoidable’ bed use results in ‘delayed’ hospital discharges. This study examined this problem using statistics that are routinely collected but not routinely used to su...

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Autores principales: Beech, R, Roe, B, Russell, W, Russell, M
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Igitur Publishing 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3184797/