The Effects of Altering Discharge Policies to Alternate Level of Care Patient Flow

Alternate Level of Care (ALC) patients are patients that stay in the acute care setting while waiting to be transferred to an ALC facility. They are not receiving the appropriate type of care and are occupying acute care resources. ALC patients occupy 5,200 patient beds everyday in Canada, and 12 pe...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Grover, Lata
Other Authors: Urbach, David Robert
Language:en_ca
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/33227