Aged Residential Care Health Utilisation Study (ARCHUS): A randomised controlled trial to reduce acute hospitalisations from residential aged care

BMC Geriatrics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Foster, Susan J ^a   Boyd, Michal ^a   Broad, Joanna B ^a   Whitehead, Noeline ^b   Kerse, Ngaire ^a   Lumley, Thomas ^a   Connolly, Martin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b Division of Medicine Emergency and Integrated Care   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HOME FOR THE AGED; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEW ZEALAND; NURSING HOME; PATIENT CARE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESIDENTIAL HOME; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; NEW ZEALAND; NURSING HOMES; PATIENT CARE TEAM; RESIDENTIAL FACILITIES;

EID: 84866142137     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2318-12-54     Document Type: Article

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