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Cost-Effectiveness of Inter-Professional Collaboration to Reduce Hospitalisations in Nursing Home Residents: Results from the German Interprof ACT Trial Cover

Cost-Effectiveness of Inter-Professional Collaboration to Reduce Hospitalisations in Nursing Home Residents: Results from the German Interprof ACT Trial

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|Apr 2023

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/ijic.7001 | Journal eISSN: 1568-4156
Language: English
Submitted on: Aug 4, 2022
Accepted on: Mar 29, 2023
Published on: Apr 19, 2023
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year

© 2023 Louisa-Kristin Muntendorf, Katrin Balzer, Tim Friede, Eva Hummers, Hans-Helmut König, Christiane Müller, Martin Scherer, Linda Steyer, Britta Tetzlaff, Sebastian Pfeiffer, Alexander Konnopka, On behalf of the interprof ACT Consortium, published by Ubiquity Press
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