Hospital Discharge Decisions Concerning Older Patients: Understanding the Underlying Process
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Timely discharge of older patients from hospital: improving the process.
Elderly patients represent a large number of admissions to hospital, accounting for a disproportionate number of hospital bed days. Discharge planning can improve the safety and appropriateness of discharge from hospital, and can have a positive impact on length of stay and efficiency. Despite this, discharge planning is often neglected. This review, both evidence and experience based, is provi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0714-9808,1710-1107
DOI: 10.1017/s0714980818000442