Identifying potentially avoidable hospital admissions from canadian long-term care facilities

Medical Care

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 250-254

  Walker, Jennifer D ^a,b   Teare, Gary F ^c,d   Hogan, David B ^b,e   Lewis, Steven ^b   Maxwell, Colleen J ^a,e,f  

^a CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH INFORMATION   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c Health Quality Council   (Canada)

^d INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^f INSTITUTE OF HEALTH ECONOMICS   (Canada)

Author keywords

Continuity of care; Hospitalization; Long term care; Preventive health services; Quality indicator

Indexed keywords

AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; CANADA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; EAR INFECTION; EMERGENCY CARE; FALLING; FRACTURE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; LONG TERM CARE; NOSE INFECTION; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; PATIENT CARE; PHARYNGITIS; POPULATION; SEPTICEMIA; TUBERCULOSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; HEALTH SERVICE; HEART FAILURE; PNEUMONIA; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; SEPSIS; STANDARD; STATISTICS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS; FRACTURES, BONE; HEALTH SERVICES MISUSE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; LONG-TERM CARE; ONTARIO; PATIENT ADMISSION; PNEUMONIA; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; REFERENCE STANDARDS; SEPSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

EID: 59049103678     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0b013e3181847588     Document Type: Article

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