Risk factors, costs and complications of delayed hospital discharge from internal medicine wards at a Canadian academic medical centre: retrospective cohort study

• Những tác giả chính: Anthony D. Bai (Tác giả), Cathy Dai (Tác giả), Siddhartha Srivastava (Tác giả), Christopher A. Smith (Tác giả), Sudeep S. Gill (Tác giả)
• Định dạng: Sách
• Được phát hành: BMC, 2019-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Những chủ đề: article
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Abstract Background Hospitalized patients are designated alternate level of care (ALC) when they no longer require hospitalization but discharge is delayed while they await alternate disposition or living arrangements. We assessed hospital costs and complications for general internal medicine (GIM)...