Premature deaths of nursing home residents: an epidemiological analysis

• 1 Bolton Clarke Research Institute, Royal District Nursing Service, Melbourne, VIC
• 2 Monash University, Melbourne, VIC
• 3 Shenzhen International Institute for Primary Health Care Research, Shenzhen, China

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