TY - JOUR T1 - An acute care unit for elderly medical patients did not increase hospital costs JF - Evidence Based Nursing JO - Evid Based Nurs SP - 26 LP - 26 DO - 10.1136/ebn.1.1.26 VL - 1 IS - 1 A2 - , Y1 - 1998/01/01 UR - http://ebn.bmj.com/content/1/1/26.abstract N2 - Covinsky Ke, King Jr Jt, Quinn Lm , Et AL. Do acute care for elders units increase hospital costs? A cost analysis using the hospital perspective. J Am Geriatr Soc 1997 Jun; 45 : 729 –34. OpenUrlPubMedWeb of Science To determine the hospital costs of caring for medical patients in a special unit for older people designed to maintain or achieve independence in self care activities compared with usual ward care.Formal cost analysis of hospital costs taken from data in a randomised controlled trial.The general medical service of a university hospital in the USA.650 patients in hospital who were aged ≥ 70 years (mean age 80 y, 67% women, 41% non-white, 40% independent in activities of daily living [ADL] at admission). Patients admitted to the intensive care unit or subspecialty medical wards were excluded.All patients … ER -