Interface between residential aged care facilities and a teaching hospital emergency department in Western Australia

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 184, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 432-435

  Finn, Judith C ^a   Flicker, Leon ^a,b   Mackenzie, Eileen ^a,b   Jacobs, Ian G ^a   Fatovich, Daniel M ^a,b   Drummond, Shelley ^b   Harris, Michelle ^c   Holman, D'Arcy C D J ^a   Sprivulis, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b ROYAL PERTH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c Catherine McAuley Nursing Home   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COHORT ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY WARD; FALLING; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PNEUMONIA; RESIDENTIAL CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

EID: 33646412311     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2006.tb00313.x     Document Type: Article

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