Emergency department transfers and hospital admissions from residential aged care facilities: A controlled pre-post design study

BMC Geriatrics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Hullick, Carolyn ^a,b,d   Conway, Jane ^a,c   Higgins, Isabel ^a,b,d   Hewitt, Jacqueline ^b   Dilworth, Sophie ^a,d   Holliday, Elizabeth ^a,d   Attia, John ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b JOHN HUNTER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^d HUNTER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acute care; Avoidable admissions; Clinical handover; Emergency Department; Homes for the aged; Hospitalization; Integrated care; Model of care; Nursing home; Patient transfer; Pre post study residential aged care; Telephone triage

Indexed keywords

AGED; ASSISTED LIVING FACILITY; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL EMERGENCY SERVICE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASSISTED LIVING FACILITIES; AUSTRALIA; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; PATIENT CARE MANAGEMENT; PATIENT TRANSFER; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; RESEARCH DESIGN; TRIAGE;

EID: 85008227595     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12877-016-0279-1     Document Type: Article

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