ArticleHealth services research2019
The effect of assigning dedicated general practitioners to nursing homes.
Article in Health services research, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Interventions to Prevent Potentially Avoidable Hospitalizations: A Mixed Methods Systematic Review.Frontiers in public health · 2022Pooled it
- The Systemic Lottery - A Field Observational Study on the Detection and Management of Acute Events in Care Homes.Scandinavian journal of caring sciences · 2026Observational
- Antibiotic treatment and antimicrobial resistance in urinary tract infections among the older population in Denmark, 1999 to 2023.Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2026Article
- The effect of having a care home physician on the care home residents' rate of contacts with primary care physicians and hospitals: a retrospective register-based study.BMC health services research · 2025Article
- Person-centred care to prevent hospitalisations - a focus group study addressing the views of healthcare providers.BMC health services research · 2022Article
- Health care utilization related to the introduction of designated GPs at care homes in Denmark: a register-based study.Scandinavian journal of primary health care · 2022Article
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- The effect of assigning dedicated general practitioners to nursing homes.Health services research · 2019Article
- Yonder: Eating disorders, neurology teaching, nursing homes, and foster carers.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2019Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo determine whether assigning a dedicated general practitioner (GP) to a nursing home reduces hospitalizations and readmissions. DATA SOURCES/STUDY
settingSecondary data on hospitalizations and deaths by month for the universe of nursing home residents in Denmark from January 2011 through February 2014. STUDY
designIn 2012, Denmark initiated a program in seven nursing homes that volunteered to participate. We used a difference-in-differences model to estimate the effect of assigning a dedicated GP to a nursing home on the likelihood that a nursing home resident will be hospitalized, will experience a preventable hospitalization, and will be readmitted. The unit of observation is a resident-month. DATA COLLECTION/EXTRACTION
methodsData were extracted from the Danish public administrative register dataset. PRINCIPAL
findingsWe found that assigning a GP to a nursing home was associated with a 0.55 [95 percent CI, 0.08 to 1.02] percentage point reduction in the monthly probability of a preventable hospitalization, which was a 26 percent reduction from the preintervention level of 2.13 percentage points. The associated reduction in the monthly probability of a readmission was 0.68 [95 percent CI, -0.01 to 1.37] percentage points, which was a 25 percent reduction from the baseline level of 2.68 percentage points. Survey results indicated that the likely mechanism for the effect was more efficient and consistent communication between GPs and nursing home personnel.
conclusionsAssigning a dedicated physician in a nursing home can reduce medical spending and improve patients' health.
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