Acute admissions to a community hospital - Health consequences: A randomized controlled trial in Hallingdal, Norway

BMC Family Practice

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Lappegard, Øystein ^a   Hjortdahl, Per ^b  

^a VESTRE VIKEN HOSPITAL TRUST   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Community hospital; Emergency health services; General practitioners; Health care systems; Patient admission; Patient outcome assessments

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HOME CARE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORWAY; NURSING HOME; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION; VERY ELDERLY;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HOME NURSING; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORWAY; NURSING HOMES; PATIENT OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT READMISSION;

EID: 84923911254     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12875-014-0198-1     Document Type: Article

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