New beginning for care for elderly people? Proposals for intermediate care are reinventing workhouse wards.

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Transitional care facility for elderly people in hospital awaiting a long term care bed: randomised controlled trial.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2005
   Trial
2. Transitional care for elderly people: intermediate care can be safe and reduce hospital use, but is it and does it?BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2005
   Article
3. The National Service Framework for Older People: England's approach to ending age discrimination in services and therapeutics.Drugs & aging · 2004
   Review
4. Intermediate care.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2002
   Article
5. National service frameworks. Framework's claim that GPs should devote more time to preventing coronary heart disease needs scrutiny.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2001
   Article

Corrections and comments

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  National service frameworks. National service framework for older people is worth a try.2001
• Comment on
  A new beginning for care for elderly people?2001

Authors and funding

1 author.

Funding

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Abstract

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