Trial reportBMJ (Clinical research ed.)2005
Transitional care facility for elderly people in hospital awaiting a long term care bed: randomised controlled trial.
Trial report in BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 2005. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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23 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Experiences and Perceptions of Medication Management Communication During Transitions of Care for Residents in Aged Care Homes and Their Caregivers: A Qualitative Meta-Synthesis.Journal of clinical nursing · 2025Pooled it
- Effectiveness of integrating primary healthcare in aftercare for older patients after discharge from tertiary hospitals-a systematic review and meta-analysis.Age and ageing · 2022Pooled it
- Transitional Care Interventions for Older Residents of Long-term Care Facilities: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.JAMA network open · 2022Pooled it
- Care home versus hospital and own home environments for rehabilitation of older people.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2008Pooled it
- Effectiveness of intermediate care in nursing-led in-patient units.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2007Pooled it
- Customized Birthweight Standard for the Population in the Republic of Kazakhstan.Maternal-fetal medicine (Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc.) · 2025Article
- Can facility-based transitional care improve patient flow? Lessons from four Canadian regions.Healthcare management forum · 2021Article
- Understanding transitional care programs for older adults who experience delayed discharge: a scoping review.BMC geriatrics · 2021Article
- Factors associated with success in transition care services among older people in Australia.BMC geriatrics · 2020Article
- Family meetings for older adults in intermediate care settings: the impact of patient cognitive impairment and other characteristics on shared decision making.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2015Article
- Improved outcomes for elderly patients who received care on a transitional care unit.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2014Article
- Quality of life of older frail persons receiving a post-discharge program.Health and quality of life outcomes · 2013Article
- How effective are programs at managing transition from hospital to home? A case study of the Australian Transition Care Program.BMC geriatrics · 2012Review
- Coaching Older Adults and Carers to have their preferences Heard (COACH): A randomised controlled trial in an intermediate care setting (study protocol).The Australasian medical journal · 2012Article
- Inconsistent reporting of surrogate outcomes in randomised clinical trials: cohort study.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2010Review
- Intermediate care for older people in the U.K.Clinical medicine (London, England) · 2010Article
- Cultural diversity between hospital and community nurses: implications for continuity of care.International journal of integrated care · 2010Article
- A new method to assess perceived well-being among elderly people--a feasibility study.BMC geriatrics · 2009Article
- Health-related Quality of Life among hospitalized older people awaiting residential aged care.Health and quality of life outcomes · 2009Article
- Improving the reporting of pragmatic trials: an extension of the CONSORT statement.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2008 · on this mapArticle
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Abstract
objectiveTo assess the effectiveness of moving patients who are waiting in hospital for a long term care bed to an off-site transitional care facility.
designRandomised controlled trial.
settingThree public hospitals in Southern Adelaide.
participants320 elderly patients (mean age 83 years) in acute hospital beds (212 randomised to intervention, 108 to control).
interventionsA transitional care facility where all patients received a single assessment from a specialist elder care team and appropriate ongoing therapy.
main outcome measuresLength of stay in hospital, rates of readmission, deaths, and patient's functional level (modified Barthel index), quality of life (assessment of quality of life), and care needs (residential care scale) at four months.
resultsFrom admission, those in the intervention group stayed a median of 32.5 days (95% confidence interval 29 to 36 days) in hospital. In the control group the median length of stay was 43.5 days (41 to 51 days) (95% confidence interval for difference 6 to 16 days). Patients in the intervention group took a median of 21 days (6 to 27 days) longer to be admitted to permanent care than those in the control group. In both groups few patients went home (14 (7%) in the intervention group v 9 (9%) in the control group). There were no significant differences in death rates (28% v 27%) or rates of transfer back to hospital (28% v 25%).
conclusionsFor frail elderly patients who are awaiting a residential care bed transfer out of hospital to an off-site transitional care unit with focus on aged care "unblocks beds" without adverse effects.
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