Hospital in the Nursing Home program reduces emergency department presentations and hospital admissions from residential aged care facilities in Queensland, Australia: a quasi-experimental study

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• 作者：Lijun Fan ; Xiang-Yu Hou ; Jingzhou Zhao ; Jiandong Sun…
• 关键词：Emergency department ; Hospital in the Nursing Home ; Health services for the aged
• 刊名：BMC Health Services Research
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：December 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：16
• 期：1
• 全文大小：708 KB
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• 作者单位：Lijun Fan (1)
  Xiang-Yu Hou (1)
  Jingzhou Zhao (2)
  Jiandong Sun (3)
  Kaeleen Dingle (1)
  Rhonda Purtill (4)
  Sam Tapp (4)
  Bill Lukin (4)
  
  1. School of Public Health and Social Work, Queensland University of Technology, Victoria Park Road, Kelvin Grove, Brisbane, QLD, 4059, Australia
  2. Bureau of Investment Promotion, Wuwei City, 733000, Gansu Province, P. R. China
  3. Queensland Health, Brisbane, QLD, 4029, Australia
  4. Department of Emergency Medicine, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, Brisbane, QLD, 4006, Australia
  
• 刊物主题：Public Health; Health Administration; Health Informatics; Nursing Management/Nursing Research;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：1472-6963

文摘

Background There has been considerable publicity regarding population ageing and hospital emergency department (ED) overcrowding. Our study aims to investigate impact of one intervention piloted in Queensland Australia, the Hospital in the Nursing Home (HiNH) program, on reducing ED and hospital attendances from residential aged care facilities (RACFs).