McAlpine C J
Br Med J. 1979 Sep 15;2(6191):646-8. doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6191.646.
A study was made of all patients admitted to a geriatric unit over several years. The admission policy included a high degree of priority to requests for transfer from acute beds, which resulted in transferred patients accounting for 25% of admissions. Unblocking acute beds did not lead to prolonged delay in admitting patients from the community to the geriatric unit. Almost 30% of beds allocated to transferred patients were recovered in 30 days.
对多年来入住老年病房的所有患者进行了一项研究。入院政策高度优先考虑从急症床位转来的请求,这使得转来的患者占入院患者的25%。疏通急症床位并没有导致社区患者入住老年病房的时间长时间延迟。分配给转来患者的床位中,近30%在30天内得以腾出。