The institutional practice on nursing homes and hospitalizations
The nursing home resident of today is old and frail. Despite such a frailty, many residents are hospitalized, often with the intention of life-extension. Furthermore, rates of hospitalization varies considerably between countries, regions and institutions, even within smaller geographical areas. Eve...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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[Place of publication not identified] :
Cappelen Damm Akademisk/NOASP (Nordic Open Access Scholarly Publishing)
2017
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009660851306719 |
Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- chapter 2. Background and context
- chapter 3. The nursing homes
- Part one of the analysis: a preliminary analysis of hospitalizations from nursing homes
- chapter 4. An analysis of the literature on hospitalization
- chapter 5. What matters? A small chapter about complexity
- chapter 6. The ambiguity of "hospitalizations"
- Part two of the analysis: the premises of practice
- chapter 7. Understanding the nursing home
- chapter 8. "Hardship and toil" in the nursing home
- Part three of the analysis: variation in practice
- chapter 9. The institutional practice
- chapter 10. Variation in hospitalization
- Source of data.
