A novel organizational model to face the challenge of multimorbid elderly patients in an internal medicine setting: a case study from Parma Hospital, Italy

Person-centred care – An approach that improves the discharge process

(2015) Kerstin Ulin et al.   European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing

Early Hospital Readmission of Nursing Home Residents and Community-Dwelling Elderly Adults Discharged from the Geriatrics Service of an Urban Teaching Hospital: Patterns and Risk Factors

(2015) Michael Bogaisky et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN GERIATRICS SOCIETY

Hospital-Associated Functional Decline: The Role of Hospitalization Processes Beyond Individual Risk Factors

(2015) Anna Zisberg et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN GERIATRICS SOCIETY

Interventions targeting the elderly population to reduce emergency department utilisation: a literature review

(2014) Lijun Fan et al.   EMERGENCY MEDICINE JOURNAL

Heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease multimorbidity at hospital discharge transition: a study of patient and carer experience

(2014) Lucy Doos et al.   HEALTH EXPECTATIONS

Overcrowding in emergency department: an international issue

(2014) Salvatore Di Somma et al.   Internal and Emergency Medicine

Multimorbidity and polypharmacy in the elderly: lessons from REPOSI

(2014) Pier Mannuccio Mannucci et al.   Internal and Emergency Medicine

Frontline Account: Targeting Hot Spotters in an Internal Medicine Residency Clinic

(2014) Melissa Dattalo et al.   JOURNAL OF GENERAL INTERNAL MEDICINE

A Modern-Day Purgatory: Older Adults in the Emergency Department with Nonoperative Injuries

(2014) Timothy F. Platts-Mills et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN GERIATRICS SOCIETY

Research on Multiple Chronic Conditions

(2014) Mary E. Tinetti et al.   MEDICAL CARE

Quality of Care and Interhospital Collaboration

(2014) Alessandro Lomi et al.   MEDICAL CARE

The Hospital-Dependent Patient

(2014) David B. Reuben et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Lean thinking in hospitals: is there a cure for the absence of evidence? A systematic review of reviews

(2014) Hege Andersen et al.   BMJ Open

Timely care for frail older people referred to hospital improves efficiency and reduces mortality without the need for extra resources

(2013) K. M. Silvester et al.   AGE AND AGEING

Active Bed Management by Hospitalists and Emergency Department Throughput

(2013) Eric Howell   ANNALS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE

Reducing unnecessary hospital days to improve quality of care through physician accountability: a cluster randomised trial

(2013) Caterina Caminiti et al.   BMC HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH

Does Reducing Length of Stay Increase Rehospitalization of Medicare Fee-for-Service Beneficiaries Discharged to Skilled Nursing Facilities?

(2013) Mark A. Unruh et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN GERIATRICS SOCIETY

Chronic disease multimorbidity transitions across healthcare interfaces and associated costs: a clinical-linkage database study

(2013) Umesh T Kadam et al.   BMJ Open

Causes and patterns of readmissions in patients with common comorbidities: retrospective cohort study

(2013) J. Donze et al.   BMJ-British Medical Journal

Association of Self-reported Hospital Discharge Handoffs With 30-Day Readmissions

(2013) Ibironke Oduyebo et al.   JAMA Internal Medicine

Potentially Avoidable 30-Day Hospital Readmissions in Medical Patients

(2013) Jacques Donzé et al.   JAMA Internal Medicine

How does lean work in emergency care? A case study of a lean-inspired intervention at the Astrid Lindgren Children's hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

(2012) Pamela Mazzocato et al.   BMC HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH

Readmissions to medical wards: Analysis of demographic and socio-medical factors

(2012) Naiel Bisharat et al.   European Journal of Internal Medicine

Risk factors for hospital readmission of elderly patients

(2012) Carlotta Franchi et al.   European Journal of Internal Medicine

Potentially Avoidable Hospitalizations of Dually Eligible Medicare and Medicaid Beneficiaries from Nursing Facility and Home- and Community-Based Services Waiver Programs

(2012) Edith G. Walsh et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN GERIATRICS SOCIETY

Definitions and Epidemiology of the Chronically Critically Ill

(2012) Shannon S Carson   Respiratory Care

Bed-blockers: An 8year experience of clinical management

(2011) Tiziana Meschi et al.   European Journal of Internal Medicine

Diagnostic pathways of the complex patients: rapid intensive observation in an Acute Medical Unit

(2011) Giuseppe Realdi et al.   Internal and Emergency Medicine

Geriatric Conditions in Acutely Hospitalized Older Patients: Prevalence and One-Year Survival and Functional Decline

(2011) Bianca M. Buurman et al.   PLoS One

A Crack in the System

(2010) Joseph G. Ouslander   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN GERIATRICS SOCIETY

Managing Emergency Department Overcrowding

(2009) Jonathan S. Olshaker   EMERGENCY MEDICINE CLINICS OF NORTH AMERICA

Prognostic Stratification of Older Persons Based on Simple Administrative Data: Development and Validation of the "Silver Code," To Be Used in Emergency Department Triage

(2009) M. D. Bari et al.   JOURNALS OF GERONTOLOGY SERIES A-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND MEDICAL SCIENCES

Systematic Review of Emergency Department Crowding: Causes, Effects, and Solutions

(2008) Nathan R. Hoot et al.   ANNALS OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE