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Improving Hospital Care for Older Adults through Acute Care for Elders (ACE Units): A Podcast with Kellie Flood and Stephanie Rogers
Acute Care for Elders (ACE Units) have been around for over a quarter of a century. Randomized trials of ACE units date back to 1996 when Seth Landefeld and colleagues published a study in NEJM showing that they improve basic activities of daily living at discharge and can reduce the frequency of discharge to long-term care institutions. But if ACE units are so great, why do so few hospitals have them?
On today's podcast we talk about ACE units with geriatricians Kellie Flood and Stephanie Rogers. They recently published a paper in JAGS looking at the current landscape of ACE units in the US…
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