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Afterhours telehealth in Australian residential aged care facilities: A mixed methods evaluation

2023-01-27

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<h4>Background: </h4> The aged care system in Australia is failing. Residential aged care facilities (RACFs) and general practitioners (GPs) struggle to meet the care demands of their residents, particularly after hours. Many residents are given ambulance support and transferred to hospital emergency departments (EDs) for care that could be provided at RACFs. The MyEmergencyDoctor (MED) service was commissioned in...

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Literature Corpus work: 40deff88-3f89-52c8-9d16-0ec7febd517f
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2505153/v1

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