Unblocking beds: a geriatric unit's experience with transferred patients.
A study was made of all patients admitted to a geriatric unit over several years. The admission policy included a high degree of priority to requests for transfer from acute beds, which resulted in transferred patients accounting for 25% of admissions. Unblocking acute beds did not lead to prolonged delay in admitting patients from the community to the geriatric unit. Almost 30% of beds allocated to transferred patients were recovered in 30 days.
D000368:Aged; D005853:Geriatrics; D006742:Hospital Bed Capacity; D006757:Hospital Units / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D007902:Length of Stay; D010343:Patient Admission; D012606:Scotland; D012931:Social Environment; D013997:Time Factors; D014164:Transfer Agreement