Background: Despite their widespread acceptance, utilization review tools, which were
designed to assess the appropriateness of care in acute care hospitals, have not been well …

A systematic review of the methods used to assess appropriateness of acute bed use and
the evidence on the scale of inappropriate use in different patient groups is presented …

Objective To use the Appropriateness Evaluation Protocol (AEP) to assess the extent of
inappropriate utilisation of hospital beds by acute medical patients. To determine whether …

An attempt was made to formulate a tool that, when compared to the appropriateness
evaluation protocol (AEP) used for evaluating the utilization of hospital services for medical …

Objective. To adjust the adult-medical Appropriateness Evaluation Protocol (AEP) into a
valid and reliable instrument for use in the Dutch health care system, to assess the …

Objective: To assess the rates of inappropriate-ness of admission and last day of care on
adult medical wards in an east London hospital, to identify associations with any …

This paper reports on the general features and findings of 11 studies conducted in Italy on
appropriateness of hospital admission and days of stay using the Appropriateness …

Abstract Objective. To review the Appropriateness Evaluation Protocol (AEP) with respect to
assessing the necessity of hospital stay at the University Hospital of Maastricht. Design …

OBJECTIVE: To describe characteristics associated with inappropriate hospital use by
patients in Manitoba in order to help target concurrent utilization review. Utilization review …

This study aims to determine the proportion of nonacute patients occupying acute care beds
and to describe their needs, the appropriate level of alternative care, and reasons …