['Wrong beds', a continuous misunderstanding?].

The run-off of hospital patients to nursing homes is insufficient. In the hospital that was examined 10% of the available beds were occupied by patients who belonged in nursing homes. In the region concerned 3% of the available nursing home beds would be sufficient to solve this problem. For human and financial considerations reservation of nursing beds for this purpose is to be preferred to the current temporary provision that labels the hospital bed financially as a nursing home bed.