Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5678908 | European Journal of Internal Medicine | 2017 | 12 Pages |
Abstract
Clinical inappropriateness and system factors that preclude alternative community care must be measured separately. They are two very different justifications for hospital admissions, requiring different solutions. Society has a duty to ensure availability of community alternatives for the management of ambulatory-sensitive conditions and facilitate skilling of staff to manage the terminally ill in non-acute settings. Only then would the evaluation of local variations in clinically inappropriate admissions and inappropriate length of stay be possible to undertake.
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Authors
Magnolia Cardona-Morrell, James C.H. Kim, Mikkel Brabrand, Blanca Gallego-Luxan, Ken Hillman,