Delay in discharge and its impact on unnecessary hospital bed occupancy

BACKGROUND: Elderly patients are potentially more vulnerable to prolonged hospital stay as they frequently require additional resources to facilitate their discharge. In an acute hospital setting, we aimed to quantify and compare length of stay (LOS) for all patients over and under the age of 65, an...

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Auteurs principaux: Majeed, Muhammad Umair, Williams, Dean Thomas, Pollock, Rachel, Amir, Farhat, Liam, Martin, Foong, Keen S, Whitaker, Chris J
Format: Artigo
Langue:Inglês
Publié: BioMed Central 2012
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Accès en ligne:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3511236/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23167656
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-12-410
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