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Short-stay units: a safe, winning bet for hospitals

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Short-stay units (SSUs) appeared in Spain in the mid-1990s and are undoubtedly a clear example of the adaptive capacity of the emergency services (EMS) in situations of high levels of care. Its appearance responds to a demand for hospitalization not covered by conventional hospitalization and has turned the professionals who worked in them into real experts in the management of acute chronic pathologies and noncomplex acute processes, usually infectious, requiring hospitalization to ensure a correct evolution. However, the implementation of SSUs in hospitals is still low

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Assistència hospitalària, Hospitals, Espanya, Unitats hospitalàries

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Hospital care, Hospitals, Spain, Hospital units

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JACOB, Javier. Short-stay units: a safe, winning bet for hospitals. Emergencias. 2017. Vol. 29, num. 3, pags. 145-146. ISSN 1137-6821. [consulted: 9 of October of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/185941

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