Profiling Intermediate Care Patients using the Single Assessment Process: A Road to Better Service Provision?

Journal of Integrated Care

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 43-48

  Mackenzie, Mathew ^a   Carpenter, Iain ^a   Kotiadis, Kathy ^b  

^a Centre for Health Services Studies

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cart; Day Hospital; Intermediate Care; Minimum Data Set; Older People; Recuperative Care; Single Assessment Process

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992999045     PISSN: 14769018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14769018200500032     Document Type: Review

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