Hospital discharge planning and continuity of care for aged people in an Italian local health unit: does the care-home model reduce hospital readmission and mortality rates?
Open Access
- 4 February 2009
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in BMC Health Services Research
- Vol. 9 (1), 22
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-9-22
Abstract
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