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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 2012
7 Resources Found
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| Title: | Hospital at home: home-based end of life care |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | A number of countries have invested in health services to provide care at home to patients with a terminal illness who wish to die at home. This investment is backed by surveys of the preferences of the general public and patients with a terminal illnes... |
| Date: | Mar 2011 |
| Title: | Care home versus hospital and own home environments for rehabilitation of older people |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | For a number of reasons, there has been an increased interest in providing elderly people with appropriate rehabilitation services. Not only are there more elderly people, but the importance of 'rehab' after a stroke, hip fracture, or an illness i... |
| Date: | Aug 2008 |
| Title: | Hospital at home early discharge |
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| 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 n... |
| Date: | Jul 2008 |
| Title: | Hospital at home admission avoidance |
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| 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 decrease or avoid admissions to hospital is to provide people with acute care treatment at home. Special services have been developed w... |
| Date: | Apr 2008 |
| Title: | Multidisciplinary rehabilitation programmes following joint replacement at the hip and knee in chronic arthropathy |
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| 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 |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | This review of |
| Date: | Aug 2003 |
| Title: | Services for helping acute stroke patients avoid hospital admission |
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| 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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