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Stemming the tide of readmissions — patient, practice or practitioner?
Author(s)	J Brown, Christopher S Gray
Journal title	Reviews in Clinical Gerontology, vol 8, no 2, May 1998
Pages	pp 173-181
Keywords	Admission [hospitals] ; Discharge [hospitals] ; At risk ; Bed availability [hospitals].
Annotation	The number of emergency admissions to hospital in the UK is rising, despite moves towards care in the community. A significant number of such admissions are readmissions of the same person for an exacerbation of the same problem, a new problem, or a failure of the discharge process. Those at risk of readmission have been identified according to specific diagnostic subgroups in a number of studies. The authors also review studies on the consequences of National Health Service (NHS) organisation/reorganisation following the NHS and Community Care Act 1990, and how clinical practice is affected. Implementation of the Report of the Working Group on Specialist Medical Training (the Calman Report), coupled with changing roles of nurses and general practitioners (GPs) may further influence dependency on hospital emergency care. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-980702002 A
Classmark	LD:QKH: LD:QKJ: CA3: LD:QKW
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