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CIHI survey: Alternative level of care in Canada: a summary.
Canadian health system managers are increasingly concerned about the number of hospital in-patients who do not need acute care services (Ontario Association for Community Care Access Centres et al. 2006; Yassi et al. 2008). These patients are widely known as "ALC patients" because they are awaiting an alternative level of care in a more appropriate setting. ALC days in hospitals is a systems is...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Healthcare Quarterly
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1929-6347
DOI: 10.12927/hcq.2013.20874