Reducing emergency admissions through community based interventions

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 352, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Wallace, Emma ^a   Smith, Susan M ^a   Fahey, Tom ^a   Roland, Martin ^b  

^a ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE MANAGEMENT; COMMUNITY CARE; EMERGENCY CARE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; ACCIDENT; CHRONIC DISEASE; ECONOMICS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION;

ACCIDENTS; CHRONIC DISEASE; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; GREAT BRITAIN; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; PATIENT ADMISSION; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PATIENT READMISSION; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84960172028     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.h6817     Document Type: Article

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