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Impact of a transition nurse program on the prevention of thirty-day hospital readmissions of elderly patients discharged from short-stay units: study protocol of the PROUST stepped-wedge cluster randomised trial
BACKGROUND: In France, for patients aged 75 or older, it has been estimated that the hospital readmission rate within 30 days is 14 %, a quarter being avoidable. Some evidence suggests that interventions “bridging” the transition from hospital to home and involving a designated professional (usually...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2016
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4776355/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26940678 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-016-0233-2 |