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BMC Health Services Research BioMed Central Research article Open Access Appropriateness of acute admissions and last in-patient day for patients with long term neurological conditions 1 2 2 Christina L Hammond* , Margaret F Phillips , Lorraine L Pinnington , 3 4 Benedict J Pearson and Apostolos Fakis Address: 1Rehabilitation Research and Education Group, School of Community Health Sciences, University of Nottingham, UK, 2Rehabilitation Research and Education Group, School of Graduate Entry Medicine Health, University of Nottingham, UK, 3Department of Assessment and Diagnostics, Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Derby, UK and 4Research and Development Department, Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Derby, UK Email: Christina L Hammond* - mcxclh@nottingham.ac.uk; Margaret F Phillips - margaret.phillips@nottingham.ac.uk; Lorraine L Pinnington - l.pinnington@nottingham.ac.uk; Benedict J Pearson - ben.pearson@derbyhospitals.nhs.uk; Apostolos Fakis - apostolos.fakis@derbyhospitals.nhs.uk * Corresponding author Published: 27 February 2009 Received: 27 June 2008 Accepted: 27 February 2009 BMC Health Services Research 2009, 9:40 doi:10.1186/1472-6963-9-40 This article is available from: /1472-6963/9/40 © 2009 Hammond et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, a