Journal article
A multi-centre randomised trial to compare the effectiveness of geriatrician-led admission avoidance hospital at home versus inpatient admission.
- Abstract:
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Background
There is concern that existing models of acute hospital care will become unworkable as the health service admits an increasing number of frail older people with complex health needs, and that there is inadequate evidence to guide the planning of acute hospital level services. We aim to evaluate whether geriatrician-led admission avoidance to hospital at home is an effective alternative to hospital admission.
Methods/Design
We are conducting a multi-site...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- BioMed Central Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Trials Journal website
- Volume:
- 18
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 491
- Publication date:
- 2017-10-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-09-27
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1745-6215
- ISSN:
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1745-6215
- Pmid:
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29061154
- Source identifiers:
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738675
Item Description
- Language:
- English
- Keywords:
- Pubs id:
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pubs:738675
- UUID:
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uuid:27233202-0c0d-4102-a85f-2f5307d72d2f
- Local pid:
- pubs:738675
- Deposit date:
- 2017-11-27
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- Copyright holder:
- Butler et al
- Copyright date:
- 2017
- Notes:
- © The Author(s). 2017 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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