英语翻译The majority patient group for the ten hospitals involve

英语翻译
The majority patient group for the ten hospitals involved in these two surveys are older people but,perhaps surprisingly,a substantial minority ( about 20%) were younger patients (Table 1).The hospitals offered acute,rehabilitation,respite and palliative care functions.These findings support the notion of the CH as a highly flexible type of health care facility.This is further supported by the considerable variation in the proportion of individual functions both between the surveys,and within the eight individual hospitals of the Leicester survey.The common perception of CHs as slow turnover units is not supported as the average length of stay was two to three weeks.Two further points are worthy of emphasis.Firstly,a dominant role for acute admission:62% for Ulster,and up to 70% for the Leicester CHs.Secondly,the relatively modest involvement of designated rehabilitation (6% and 31% respectively) —although it is likely that many of the acute admissions would also have received rehabilitation.A recent descriptive account reported that about half the patients admitted to a CH obtained functional improvement as reflected by serial Barthel index scores[16].