Hospital readmissions of patients with heart failure: The Impact of Hospital and Primary Care Organizational Factors in Northern Italy

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Avaldi, Vera Maria ^a   Lenzi, Jacopo ^a   Castaldini, Ilaria ^b   Urbinati, Stefano ^c   Di Pasquale, Giuseppe ^d   Morini, Mara ^b   Protonotari, Adalgisa ^b   Maggioni, Aldo Pietro ^e   Fantini, Maria Pia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b Bologna Health Trust   (Italy)

^c BELLARIA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d MAGGIORE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^e ANMCO RESEARCH CENTER   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOLOGY; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; ITALY; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VERY ELDERLY; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; INCIDENCE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROCEDURES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME FACTOR;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; ITALY; MALE; PATIENT READMISSION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84930225955     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0127796     Document Type: Article

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