A scoping review of initiatives to reduce inappropriate or non-beneficial hospital admissions and bed days in people nearing the end of their life: much innovation, but limited supporting evidence

BACKGROUND: Hospitalisation during the last weeks of life when there is no medical need or desire to be there is distressing and expensive. This study sought palliative care initiatives which may avoid or shorten hospital stay at the end of life and analysed their success in terms reducing bed days....

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Autores principales: Taylor, Ros, Ellis, Jonathan, Gao, Wei, Searle, Liz, Heaps, Kate, Davies, Robert, Hawksworth, Claire, Garcia-Perez, Angela, Colclough, Giles, Walker, Steven, Wee, Bee
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7045380/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32103745
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12904-020-0526-2

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7045380/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32103745
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12904-020-0526-2

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