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ReviewThe Egyptian journal of internal medicine2023

Hospital at home: emergence of a high-value model of care delivery.

Sai Gautham Kanagala, Vasu Gupta, Sunita Kumawat, Fnu Anamika, Brian McGillen, Rohit Jain

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Review in The Egyptian journal of internal medicine, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
22citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
7.7field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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.

2 · The registry

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.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 36 citations in OpenAlex.

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  12. Home-Based Daratumumab in Patients With Multiple Myeloma.European journal of haematology · 2025
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  18. Parenteral medication use in hospital at home: Challenges and opportunities.American journal of health-system pharmacy : AJHP : official journal of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.

Sai Gautham KanagalaOsmania Medical College, Hyderabad, India.ORCID 0000-0002-9901-0916
Vasu GuptaDayanand Medical College and Hospital, Ludhiana, India.
Sunita KumawatIndex Medical College Hospital & Research Center, Indore, India.
Fnu AnamikaUniversity College of Medical Sciences, Delhi, India.
Brian McGillenMedicine, Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA USA.
Rohit JainMedicine, Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA USA.
Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center · USDayanand Medical College & Hospital · INIndex Medical College, Hospital & Research Centre · INOsmania Medical College · INUniversity College of Medical Sciences · IN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: With increasing healthcare demands for acute illness in patients especially in the times of pandemic, healthcare organizations require modern solutions. Hospital at home (HaH) is one such tool that has the potential to solve these problems without compromising the care of the patients. Main body: Hospitals have been the conventional setting for managing acute sickness patients; however, it could be a very challenging environment for a few patients, especially for the older population who are highly susceptible to hospital-acquired infections. Health care in a hospital setting can also be very expensive, as it often involves a lot of healthcare professionals providing care. HaH service can provide the same quality of care expected in traditional settings. Conclusions: The median length of stay and the rate of readmissions were lower in people under HaH care. Compared with patients in a hospital setting, patients in HaH had better clinical outcomes. HaH unit provides an integrated, flexible, easy-to-scale platform that can be cost-effectively adapted to high-demand situations.

Indexed as

Cost-effectiveHospital at homePatient satisfaction score

Identifiers

PMID36969500
PMCPMC10023005
OpenAlexW4360979135

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