Quality Improvement and Cost Savings with Multicomponent Delirium Interventions: Replication of the Hospital Elder Life Program in a Community Hospital

Psychosomatics

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 219-226

  Zaubler, Thomas S ^a   Murphy, Kerry ^a   Rizzuto, Lori ^a   Santos, Rachael ^a   Skotzko, Christine ^a   Giordano, Jill ^a   Bustami, Rami ^a   Inouye, Sharon K ^b  

^a Atlantic Health   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; CONFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST CONTROL; DELIRIUM; DISEASE DURATION; ELDERLY CARE; FEEDING; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYDRATION; INTERVENTION STUDY; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SLEEP; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COST SAVINGS; DELIRIUM; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HOSPITAL COSTS; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 84877814291     PISSN: 00333182     EISSN: 15457206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psym.2013.01.010     Document Type: Article

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