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Reimbursement: bureaucracy or better service?
— [delayed discharges] | | Author(s) | Andrew Skyes, Peter Belfield, Rosemary Young |
| Journal title | Geriatric Medicine, vol 33, no 12, December 2003 |
| Pages | pp 13, 15-18 |
| Keywords | Discharge [hospitals] ; Delayed discharge ; Costs [care] ; Social Services Departments ; Sweden. |
| Annotation | The new reimbursement arrangements, which aim to reduce delayed discharges, went live on 5 January 2004. In this article, the authors discuss the likely impact on Health and Local Authorities, and the main policy principles. Concerns raised by the policy include: delays to patients' rehabilitation prospects; pressure of throughput affecting patient choice; and diverting social services resources away from other work. The Swedish system of core charging - a well-established reimbursement system introduced in Gothenburg in 1994 - is described. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040217222 A |
| Classmark | LD:QKJ: LD:QKM: QDC: PF: 76P |
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