Browsing Harvard Medical School by Keyword "acute care"
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Barriers and Facilitators to Implementing Delirium Rounds in a Clinical Trial Across Three Diverse Hospital Settings
(SAGE Publications, 2013)Delirium occurs in more than half of hospitalized older adults with dementia, substantially worsening outcomes. The use of multiple strategies and a local opinion leader, unit champion, has cumulative and lasting effects ... -
Risk Factors for Hospitalization Among Community-Dwelling Primary Care Older Patients
(Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2008)Background: Unplanned hospitalization often represents a costly and hazardous event for the older population. Objectives: To develop and validate a predictive model for unplanned medical hospitalization from administrative ... -
Sustaining Clinical Programs During Difficult Economic Times: A Case Series from the Hospital Elder Life Program
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)OBJECTIVES: To explore strategies used by clinical programs to justify operations to decision-makers using the example of the Hospital Elder Life Program (HELP), an evidence-based, cost-effective program to improve care ...