The False Economy of Seeking to Eliminate Delayed Transfers of Care: Some Lessons from Queueing Theory

BACKGROUND: It is a stated ambition of many healthcare systems to eliminate delayed transfers of care (DTOCs) between acute and step-down community services. OBJECTIVE: This study aims to demonstrate how, counter to intuition, pursual of such a policy is likely to be uneconomical, as it would requir...

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Autores principales: Wood, Richard M., Harper, Alison L., Onen-Dumlu, Zehra, Forte, Paul G., Pitt, Martin, Vasilakis, Christos
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2022
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Original Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9760184/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36529825
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40258-022-00777-2

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9760184/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36529825
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40258-022-00777-2

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