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Delay in discharge and its impact on unnecessary hospital bed occupancy
BACKGROUND: Elderly patients are potentially more vulnerable to prolonged hospital stay as they frequently require additional resources to facilitate their discharge. In an acute hospital setting, we aimed to quantify and compare length of stay (LOS) for all patients over and under the age of 65, an...
Autores principales: | Majeed, Muhammad Umair, Williams, Dean Thomas, Pollock, Rachel, Amir, Farhat, Liam, Martin, Foong, Keen S, Whitaker, Chris J |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2012
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3511236/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23167656 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-12-410 |
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