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Healthcare utilization in older patients using personal emergency response systems: an analysis of electronic health records and medical alert data: Brief Description: A Longitudinal Retrospective Analyses of healthcare utilization rates in older patients using Personal Emergency Response Systems from 2011 to 2015

BACKGROUND: Personal Emergency Response Systems (PERS) are traditionally used as fall alert systems for older adults, a population that contributes an overwhelming proportion of healthcare costs in the United States. Previous studies focused mainly on qualitative evaluations of PERS without a longit...

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Autores principales: Agboola, Stephen, Golas, Sara, Fischer, Nils, Nikolova-Simons, Mariana, op den Buijs, Jorn, Schertzer, Linda, Kvedar, Joseph, Jethwani, Kamal
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5395921/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28420358
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-017-2196-1