Integration between General and Geriatric Medicine: A Needs Related Policy

A joint admitting policy between a general physician and a physician in medicine for the elderly reduced the length of stay in acute medical beds by 25% without increasing the length of stay in rehabilitation beds. The basis for the cooperation was not related to age but rather to the perceived need...

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Autores principales: McLean, Katharine A, Austin, Christopher A, Neal, Keith R, Channer, Kevin S
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Royal College of Physicians of London 1994
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5400997/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7807429
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description A joint admitting policy between a general physician and a physician in medicine for the elderly reduced the length of stay in acute medical beds by 25% without increasing the length of stay in rehabilitation beds. The basis for the cooperation was not related to age but rather to the perceived needs of the patient on admission. This method of integration between medicine and geriatrics could be implemented in most hospitals.
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spelling pubmed-54009972019-01-22 Integration between General and Geriatric Medicine: A Needs Related Policy McLean, Katharine A Austin, Christopher A Neal, Keith R Channer, Kevin S J R Coll Physicians Lond Original Papers A joint admitting policy between a general physician and a physician in medicine for the elderly reduced the length of stay in acute medical beds by 25% without increasing the length of stay in rehabilitation beds. The basis for the cooperation was not related to age but rather to the perceived needs of the patient on admission. This method of integration between medicine and geriatrics could be implemented in most hospitals. Royal College of Physicians of London 1994 /pmc/articles/PMC5400997/ /pubmed/7807429 Text en © Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London 1994 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) , which permits non-commercial use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.
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