Hospitalization and emergent care risk assessment

Home Health Care Management and Practice

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 117-124

  Anderson, Donna ^a   Backaler, Margaret ^b   Guiden, Mary ^c  

^a Quality Insights of Pennsylvania   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute care hospitalization ACH ; Chronic illness; Home health; Prevention; Risk assessment; Risk identification

Indexed keywords

EID: 38049186533     PISSN: 10848223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1084822307306629     Document Type: Article

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