Improving post-stroke health outcomes: Can facilitated care help?

Health Policy

Volumn 93, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 180-187

  Kucukyazici, Beste ^a   Verter, Vedat ^a   Nadeau, Lyne ^b   Mayo, Nancy E ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Facilitated care; Health policy; Markov modeling; Post discharge; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY BASED REHABILITATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SERVICE; HOME CARE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PATIENT CARE; STROKE; STROKE PATIENT;

AGED; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; DATABASES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONG-TERM CARE; MALE; MARKOV CHAINS; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUEBEC; STROKE;

EID: 70350614416     PISSN: 01688510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2009.07.010     Document Type: Article

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