Facility and Regional Variations in Admission and Discharge Patterns Within Step-Up Intermediate Care: A Cross-Sectional Study of Municipal Inpatient Acute Care Services in Norway
Fan Yang, Lisa Victoria Burrell, Maren Kristine Raknes Sogstad, Marianne Sundlisæter Skinner · 2024
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Fan Yang and three co-authors study local acute care units in Norway in this 2024 paper. The units were set up in 2012 to treat less urgent patients near home and spare hospitals. How patients move through them, though, varies and was little mapped.
The study covered over thirty-six thousand admissions across one hundred eighty-five units in 2019. Larger units took far more patients straight from hospitals than small ones did. Units run jointly by several towns sent more patients on to hospital at discharge. Rates of discharge to nursing homes differed by region, with central and western areas higher. The authors say the services follow their aim of avoiding hospital stays. They also flag wide local variation for planners to address.
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| CREATOR | Fan Yang, Lisa Victoria Burrell, Maren Kristine Raknes Sogstad, Marianne Sundlisæter Skinner |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 40 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |