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Reduced hospitalization rates are not associated with increased mortality or readmission rates in an emergency department in Israel

BACKGROUND AND AIM: In 2011 the Israeli Ministry of Health (MOH) instructed hospitals to limit occupancy in the internal medicine wards to 120%, which was followed by a nationwide reduction in hospitalization rates. We examined how readmission and mortality rates changed in the five years following...

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Autores principales: Greenberg, Sharon A., Halpern, Pinchas, Ziv-Baran, Tomer, Gamzu, Ronni
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/PMC6247762/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30458855
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13584-018-0265-5