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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.
Updated October 2007
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Hospital at home versus in-patient hospital care
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John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
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'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...
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May 2005
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| Title: |
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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Feb 2003
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| Title: |
Report of the National Evaluation - Stage 1 and 2
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Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
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| 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.
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Mar 2001
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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: |
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 (...
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May 1999
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