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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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Autores principales: Marincowitz, Carl, Preston, Louise, Cantrell, Anna, Tonkins, Michael, Sabir, Lisa, Mason, Suzanne
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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