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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Reviewed January 2009

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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:   Aug 2008

Title:   Early discharge hospital at home
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
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...
Date:   Jul 2008

Title:   Admission avoidance hospital at home
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
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.
Date:   Apr 2008

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:   Joint replacements are common procedures and treatment of choice for those with intractable joint pain and disability arising from arthropathy of the hip or knee. Multidisciplinary rehabilitation is considered integral to the outcome of joint replacemen...
Date:   Dec 2007

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.
Date:   Aug 2003

Title:   Services for helping acute stroke patients avoid hospital admission
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
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...
Date:   May 1999
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