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

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...

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Main Authors: Inbal Weiss Salz, Yehuda Carmeli, Avi Levin, Noga Fallach, Tali Braun, Sharon Amit
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-05-01
Series:Israel Journal of Health Policy Research
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13584-020-00379-0