Analysis of medical short-term admissions of elderly patients with focus on alternatives to hospitalization

Signe Hermansen; Gertrude Elisabeth Ellekilde; Lars Rytter; Yves Sales; Karen  Bay Kønig; Allan Andersen; Lars Petersen; Ove Andersen

Analysis of medical short-term admissions of elderly patients with focus on alternatives to hospitalization

Signe Hermansen, Gertrude Elisabeth Ellekilde, Lars Rytter, Yves Sales, Karen Bay Kønig, Allan Andersen, Lars Petersen, Ove Andersen

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Abstract

By a retrospective medical record review it is studied if 334 admissions of acute short-term hospitalization (< 24 hours) of elderly medical patients could have been substituted by alternative solutions. 27% of these admissions were evaluated as substitutable. This study cannot confirm that the number of medical short-term admissions of elderly patients could be reduced by one or more specific interventions, nor that the medical short-term hospitalization generally is inappropriate.

Translated title of the contribution	Analyse af medicinske korttidsindlæggelser af ældre patienter med fokus på alternative løsninger
Original language	English
Journal	Ugeskrift for Laeger
Volume	177
Issue number	6
Pages (from-to)	561-563
ISSN	0041-5782
Publication status	Published - 16 Mar 2015

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