David Oliver: Admission should allow for patient aids
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David Oliver: Admission should allow for patient aids.
I’ve never believed that all hospital admissions are undesirable or avoidable. Sometimes admission is the best, only, or safest option. But it shouldn’t avoidably make patients worse for reasons unconnected to the illness causing admission. It’s a bewildering enough start, to be whisked out of your home at short notice into an ambulance, through a busy emergency floor and into the alien environ...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0959-8138,1756-1833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.j3953