Delayed hospital discharges for elderly patients are highly prevalent and costly, though significant methodological variability exists across studies.
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Delayed discharges burden acute hospitals with high variable costs; extends calls for interventions while leaving modifiable factors unidentified.
Landeiro et al. (2017) studied this question.
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