Elderly bedridden patients with dementia use over one quarter of resources in internal medicine wards in an Israeli hospital

• Main Authors: Inbal Weiss Salz (Author), Yehuda Carmeli (Author), Avi Levin (Author), Noga Fallach (Author), Tali Braun (Author), Sharon Amit (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2020-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Elderly bedridden patients with dementia (EBRPD) are a growing segment of the population. We aimed to describe acute care hospitalization of EBRPD in internal medicine wards: the prevalence of EBRPD, their impact on hospital resources and hospital ecology, one-year survival, and...