Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ296467
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1983
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Administratively Necessary Days: More than an Administrative Problem.
Markson, Elizabeth W.; And Others
Gerontologist, v23 n5 p486-92 Oct 1983
Surveyed discharge planners at 49 acute care hospitals to ascertain problems they perceived in placing elderly patients. Selected hospital characteristics and placement practices and the ways in which they are associated with hospital back-up (sometimes called administratively necessary days) and delays in placement were analyzed. (Author/JAC)
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Administrative Problems, Geriatrics, Hospitals, Nursing Homes, Older Adults, Patients, Placement
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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