Hospital Care At Home Is Feasible And Cost-Effective, Study Finds
Main Category: Caregivers / HomecareArticle Date: 07 Dec 2005 - 0:00 PDT
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Sixty percent of patients who required hospitalization for one of four conditions chose to receive hospital-quality care at home (Article, p. 798).
Patients who agreed to treatment at home received similar quality of care, had fewer and shorter treatments, and generated lower costs than those who were hospitalized.
An editorial writer says the study affirms that "hospital-at-home care offers worthy net benefits" but does not provide objective evidence to judge the health or economic benefits of this type of care (Editorial, p. 840).
Annals of Internal Medicine (www.annals.org) is published by the American College of Physicians. These highlights are not intended to substitute for articles as sources of information.
Susan Anderson
sanderson@acponline.org
American College of Physicians
www.acponline.org
Annals of Internal Medicine Dec. 6, 2005
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