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Repeat emergency department visits by nursing home residents: a cohort study using health administrative data

BACKGROUND: Nursing home (NH) residents are frequent users of emergency departments (ED) and while prior research suggests that repeat visits are common, there is little data describing this phenomenon. Our objectives were to describe repeat ED visits over one year, identify risk factors for repeat...

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Autores principales: Gruneir, Andrea, Cigsar, Candemir, Wang, Xuesong, Newman, Alice, Bronskill, Susan E., Anderson, Geoff M., Rochon, Paula A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6034297/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29976135
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-018-0854-8