Impact of an acute geriatric outreach service to residential aged care facilities on hospital admissions
Abstract Introduction Residential aged care facility (RACF) residents frequently present to the emergency department (ED) and are often admitted to hospital. Some presentations and admissions may be avoidable. In 2013, Bankstown‐Lidcombe Hospital introduced a subacute geriatric outreach service (SGO...
Main Authors: | Jun Dai, Frank Liu, Deni Irwanto, Manoj Kumar, Nabaraj Tiwari, Jack Chen, Yinghua Xu, Matthew Smith, Daniel KY Chan |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Wiley
2021-09-01
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Series: | Aging Medicine |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1002/agm2.12176 |
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