Integrative hospital treatment in older patients to benchmark and improve outcome and length of stay - the In-HospiTOOL study

• Main Authors: Alexander Kutz (Author), Daniel Koch (Author), Antoinette Conca (Author), Ciril Baechli (Author), Sebastian Haubitz (Author), Katharina Regez (Author), Ursula Schild (Author), Zeljka Caldara (Author), Fahim Ebrahimi (Author), Stefano Bassetti (Author), Jens Eckstein (Author), Juerg Beer (Author), Michael Egloff (Author), Vladimir Kaplan (Author), Tobias Ehmann (Author), Claus Hoess (Author), Heinz Schaad (Author), Ulrich Wagner (Author), Sabina de Geest (Author), Philipp Schuetz (Author), Beat Mueller (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2019-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background A comprehensive in-hospital patient management with reasonable and economic resource allocation is arguably the major challenge of health-care systems worldwide, especially in elderly, frail, and polymorbid patients. The need for patient management tools to improve the transition...