Journal of health services research & policy
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J Health Serv Res Policy · Jul 2005
Randomized Controlled Trial Comparative Study Clinical TrialThe effectiveness, acceptability and costs of a hospital-at-home service compared with acute hospital care: a randomized controlled trial.
To compare the safety, effectiveness, acceptability and costs of a hospital-at-home programme with usual acute hospital inpatient care. ⋯ This hospital-at-home programme was found to be more acceptable and as effective and safe as inpatient care. While caring for patients at home was significantly more costly than standard inpatient care, this was largely due to the hospital-at-home programme not operating at full capacity.
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J Health Serv Res Policy · Jul 2005
Towards systematic reviews that inform health care management and policy-making.
To identify ways to improve the usefulness of systematic reviews for health care managers and policy-makers that could then be evaluated prospectively. ⋯ Researchers could help to ensure that the future flow of systematic reviews will better inform health care management and policy-making by involving health care managers and policy-makers in their production and better highlighting information that is relevant for decisions. Research funders could help to ensure that the global stock of systematic reviews will better inform health care management and policy-making by supporting and evaluating local adaptation processes such as developing and making available online more user-friendly 'front ends' for potentially relevant systematic reviews.