Hospital discharge planning and continuity of care for aged people in an Italian local health unit: Does the care-home model reduce hospital readmission and mortality rates?

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Damiani, Gianfranco ^a   Federico, Bruno ^b   Venditti, Antonella ^a   Sicuro, Lorella ^a   Rinaldi, Silvia ^a   Cirio, Franco ^c   Pregno, Cristiana ^d   Ricciardi, Walter ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CASSINO AND SOUTHERN LAZIO   (Italy)

^c Local Health Unit No4 of Turin   (Italy)

^d Social Services Unit   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HOME CARE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATIENT CARE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THEORETICAL MODEL; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; FEMALE; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MORTALITY; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PATIENT READMISSION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 61649108177     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-9-22     Document Type: Article

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