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A Comparison of Free-Standing versus Co-Located Long-Term Acute Care Hospitals

BACKGROUND: Long-term acute care hospitals (LTACs) provide specialized treatment for patients with chronic critical illness. Increasingly LTACs are co-located within traditional short-stay hospitals rather than operated as free-standing facilities, which may affect LTAC utilization patterns and outc...

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Autores principales: Kahn, Jeremy M., Barnato, Amber E., Lave, Judith R., Pike, Francis, Weissfeld, Lisa A., Le, Tri Q., Angus, Derek C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4595282/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26440102
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0139742