Hospital in the Home

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.

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Updated October 2007

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Title:   Multidisciplinary rehabilitation programmes following joint replacement at the hip and knee in chronic arthropathy
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Multidisciplinary rehabilitation that happens very soon after hip or knee replacement:may improve a person's ability to move. Multidisciplinary rehabilitation that takes place at home:may improve a person's quality of life and their ability to do normal...
Date:   Dec 2007

Title:   Hospital at home versus in-patient hospital care
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   'Hospital at home' is care provided at home that would otherwise require a hospital stay. This review looked at hospital at home schemes for adults, excluding maternity and mental health schemes and paediatric and long term care programmes. Most trial...
Date:   May 2005

Title:   Hospital at home for acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   In selected circumstances people with acute episodes of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease receiving 'hospital at home' services prefer it, and have similar outcomes to people who are hospitalised.

Title:   Care home versus hospital and own home environments for rehabilitation of older people
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
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...
Date:   Feb 2003

Title:   Report of the National Evaluation - Stage 1 and 2
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   Six trials in the private health sector have investigated acute care delivery outside the hospital setting. These trials have been subjected to a rigorous two stage evaluation process which has shown that these initiatives were safe, were delivered using sound clinical practices, were well accepted by service providers (the professions), consumers and carers and were cost effective.
Date:   Mar 2001

Title:   Services for helping acute stroke patients avoid hospital admission
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Provision of hospital-at-home facilities for people experiencing recent strokes versus conventional care 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 (...
Date:   May 1999
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