Discharge disposition disagreements and re-admission risk among older adults: a retrospective cohort study

OBJECTIVES: Re-admissions after hospitalisation are a burden for patients and costly. Our objective was to examine whether re-admissions were increased among older patients when they or their surrogates disagreed with the discharge disposition recommended by the clinical team at hospital discharge....

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Autores principales: Dinescu, Anca, Korc-Grodzicki, Beatriz, Farber, Jeffrey, Ross, Joseph S
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Group 2012
Materias:
Geriatric Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3547317/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23117568
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2012-001646

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3547317/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23117568
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2012-001646

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