Identifying alternatives to old age psychiatry inpatient admission

"The results suggest that if enhanced community services were available, a significant minority of inpatients could be more appropriately supported in their own homes at a cost considerably lower than that currently incurred."

Identifying alternatives to old age psychiatry inpatient admission: an application of the balance of care approach to health and social care planning

S Tucker, C Brand, M Wilberforce, M Abendstern, D Challis
BMC Health Services Research 2015, 15:267  doi:10.1186/s12913-015-0913-1

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Choosing a model to predict hospital admission

"Characteristics of patients identified by the algorithms provide useful information in the design/costing of intervention strategies to improve care coordination/outcomes for these patients."

Choosing a model to predict hospital admission: an observational study of new variants of predictive models for case finding
J Billings, T Georghiou, I Blunt, M Bardsley
BMJ Open, 2013, 3:e003352

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Interventions to reduce unplanned hospital admission

"The overall aim of this series of systematic reviews was to evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of interventions to reduce unplanned hospital admission."

Interventions to reduce unplanned hospital admission: a series of systematic reviews
S Purdy, S Paranjothy, A Huntley, R Thomas, M Mann, D Huws, P Brindle, G Elwyn
Avon Primary Care Research Collaborative
June 2012

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