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Ugeskr Laeger
; 177(9): V10140554, 2015 Feb 23.
Article
in Danish
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-25749287
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.