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Acute Paediatric Centers: A Case Study

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This analysis shows the aggregated number of patients by age groups that were transferred to acute care inpatient institution in the fiscal year 2002-2003. This discharge category includes transfer to another acute, subacute, acute psychiatric, acute rehabilitation, acute cancer centre and acute paediatric centre. From the age group perspective, overall the children category had the highest rate of transfer to acute care inpatient institution (39.60%) followed by the adult group (33.46%). The senior (17.17%) and youth (9.77%) category ranked lowest in the transfer rate during the fiscal year 2002-2003. It is fair to say that annually, only 1 in every 10 admissions to acute care inpatient is a youth. Within each quarter the trend is slightly

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