The use of acute hospital services by elderly residents of nursing and residential care homes.

The objective of this study was to compare hospitalisation rates by cause of admission, hospital death rates and length of stay for residents from nursing and residential care homes with those in the community. This is a retrospective study of acute hospital emergency admissions in one health distri...

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Publicado en:Health & Social Care in the Community Vol. 9; no. 6; pp. 367 - 375
Autores principales: Goddon S, Pollock AM
Formato: research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Nov2001
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