[Analysis of medical short-term admissions of elderly patients with focus on alternatives to hospitalization].
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.
Banediget 1, 4622 Havdrup. signehermansen2@gmail.com.
Signe
S
Hermansen
Gertrude Elisabeth
GE
Ellekilde
Lars
L
Rytter
Yves
Y
Sales
Karen Bay
KB
Kønig
Allan
A
Andersen
Lars
L
Petersen
Ove
O
Andersen
D000208:Acute Disease; D000368:Aged; D006300:Health Services Misuse / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006760:Hospitalization / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D007902:Length of Stay / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D010343:Patient Admission / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013997:Time Factors