An acute care geriatric unit: The bottom line is … quality can cost less

Nursing Management

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 1986, Pages 22-25

  Boyer, Nancy ^a   Chuang, Jane Lan Christy ^b   Gipner, Donna ^a  

^a UNITY HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b PFIZER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COST; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL SUBDIVISIONS AND COMPONENTS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; NURSING; RANDOMIZATION;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GERIATRIC NURSING; HOSPITAL UNITS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; NURSING ASSESSMENT; RANDOM ALLOCATION;

EID: 0022718270     PISSN: 07446314     EISSN: 15388670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (4)

1. Burley, L. E., C. T. Currie et al., “Contribution from Geriatric.Medicine within Acute Medical Wards.” BMJ, vol. 2, 1974, pp. 90-92.
2. Applegate, W. B., D. Akins and R. Van-derZwaag, et al., “A Geriatric Rehabilitation and Assessment Unit in a Community Hospital,” J. Amer. Geriat. Soc., vol. 31, no. 4,1983, pp. 206-210.
3. Rubinstein, L. Z., I. B. Abrass and R. L. Kane, “Improved Care for Patients on a New Geriatric Evaluation Unit,” J. Amer. Geriat. Soc., vol. 29, no. 11,1981, pp. 523-536.
4. We used BMDP Statistical Software from the University of California Press, Los Angeles, California, 1981