Quality in nursing home care: whose responsibility?
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Quality in nursing home care: whose responsibility?
Long term care for elderly people in the United Kingdom is increasingly provided by nursing homes in the independent sector. Between 1983 and 1994 the number of National Health Service (NHS) continuing care beds fell from 55 600 to 37 500 and the number of nursing home beds rose from 18 200 to 148 500.' With an estimated one in four people over 85 currently receiving institutional care' and pro...
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عنوان ژورنال: Quality and Safety in Health Care
سال: 1997
ISSN: 1475-3898,1475-3901
DOI: 10.1136/qshc.6.3.118