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What influences decisions to transfer older care-home residents to the emergency department? A synthesis of qualitative reviews
BACKGROUND: care home residents aged over 65 have disproportionate rates of emergency department (ED) attendance and hospitalisation. Around 40% attendances may be avoidable, and hospitalisation is associated with harms. We synthesised the evidence available in qualitative systematic reviews of diff...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9681131/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36413591 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afac257 |