A novel organizational model to face the challenge of multimorbid elderly patients in an internal medicine setting: a case study from Parma Hospital, Italy

Internal and Emergency Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 667-676

  Meschi, Tiziana ^a   Ticinesi, Andrea ^a   Prati, Beatrice ^a   Montali, Arianna ^b   Ventura, Antonio ^c   Nouvenne, Antonio ^a   Borghi, Loris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bed manager; Elderly frail patient; Emergency department overcrowding; Hospital dependent patient; Organizational model

Indexed keywords

AGED; CLINICAL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DATA BASE; EMERGENCY WARD; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTENSIVE CARE; INTERNAL MEDICINE; ITALY; LENGTH OF STAY; MANAGER; MODEL; NURSE; PREVENTION; SAFETY; TEACHING; TURNOVER TIME; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; COMORBIDITY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL EMERGENCY SERVICE; HOSPITALIZATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INTERNAL MEDICINE; ITALY; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; PATIENT DISCHARGE;

EID: 84957535703     PISSN: 18280447     EISSN: 19709366     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11739-016-1390-1     Document Type: Article

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