The hospital admissions study in England: are there alternatives to emergency hospital admission?
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The hospital admissions study in England: are there alternatives to emergency hospital admission?
STUDY OBJECTIVE To assess the potential for substituting alternative forms of care for admission to an acute hospital in particular groups of patients. DESIGN A screening tool, the intensity-severity-discharge review system with adult criteria (ISD-A), developed for hospital utilisation review in the USA, was used in a cohort of hospital admissions to identify a group of patients who could po...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
سال: 1995
ISSN: 0143-005X
DOI: 10.1136/jech.49.2.194