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As an alternative to staying in hospital, hospital in the home services provide home-based care to ambulatory patients. Patients have regular visits from appropriate nursing and medical staff, and also 24 hour telephone access to the hospital.
Follow the links below to find information about hospital in the home services.
Reviewed January 2009
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Care home versus hospital and own home environments for rehabilitation of older people
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John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
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| Description: |
The growing demand for rehabilitation services for older people has generated increased interest in the use of alternative care environments. This review aimed to compare the effects of care home environments (e.g. nursing home, residential care home an...
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Aug 2008
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| Title: |
Early discharge hospital at home
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| Publisher: |
John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
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| Description: |
There continues to be, in some countries, more demand for acute care hospital beds than there are beds. One way to free up beds to make room for other people being admitted is to discharge patients home early. But the patients who are discharged still...
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| Date: |
Jul 2008
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| Title: |
Admission avoidance hospital at home
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| Publisher: |
John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
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| Description: |
Admission avoidance hospital at home is a service that provides active treatment by health care professionals in the patient's home for a condition that otherwise would require acute hospital in-patient care, and always for a limited time period.
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| Date: |
Apr 2008
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| Title: |
Services for helping acute stroke patients avoid hospital admission
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| Publisher: |
John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
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| Description: |
A person experiences a stroke when a blood clot blocks a blood vessel in or to the brain or when there is bleeding in the brain. The damage caused (focal neurological deficit) is a major cause of death and disability. Stroke patients are usually admitte...
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May 1999
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