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Elderly bedridden patients with dementia use over one quarter of resources in internal medicine wards in an Israeli hospital

BACKGROUND: Elderly bedridden patients with dementia (EBRPD) are a growing segment of the population. We aimed to describe acute care hospitalization of EBRPD in internal medicine wards: the prevalence of EBRPD, their impact on hospital resources and hospital ecology, one-year survival, and one-year...

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Autores principales: Salz, Inbal Weiss, Carmeli, Yehuda, Levin, Avi, Fallach, Noga, Braun, Tali, Amit, Sharon
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7193696/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32357941
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13584-020-00379-0