BACKGROUND: Acute care hospitals in Quebec are required to reserve 10% of their beds
for patients receiving long-term care while awaiting transfer to a long-term care facility. It is …

Risk factors for long-stays (more than 30 days) in Winnipeg hospitals were identified,
including sociodemographic, illness, and system characteristics. The largest determinant of …

The effects of long-term hospitalizations can be severe, especially among older adults. In
Manitoba, between fiscal years 1991/1992 and 1999/2000, 40 per cent of acute care …

Long-Term Page 1 Administration: The Critical Long-Term Care Variable Howard L. Smith,
Stephen M. Shortell, and Borje O. Saxberg Administrators and managers are crucial variables …

Aim and methods: There is no consensus definition on what constitutes a long stay in the
intensive care unit, and little published information on the demographic characteristics …

Objectives: To assess the numbers, characteristics and outcome for patients requiring long-
term intensive care. Design and setting: Observational cohort study in 23 Scottish intensive …

The Program for All-inclusive Care of the Elderly (PACE) is one of the few extant managed
care models that combines acute and long-term care under a single capitated payment. In …

FROM 1970 to 1980 the elderly population (those over age 65) grew by 14.8 per cent in
Massachusetts and by 27.3 per cent in the country as a whole. The population over the age …

• Background Long stays in the intensive care unit are associated with high costs and
burdens on patients and patients' families and in turn affect society at large. Although factors …

Many clinicians have doubts about the validity of using activity data to measure the efficiency
of health services, since they take no account of outcome. In elderly patients presenting with …