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Preventive home visits to elderly people
 — their effectiveness cannot be judged by randomised controlled trials
Author(s)J Clark
Journal titleBritish Medical Journal, vol 323, no 7315, 29 September 2001
Pagesp 708
KeywordsHome visits [doctors] ; Health visiting ; Preventative medicine ; Performance ; Evaluation.
AnnotationEvaluating the effectiveness of health visiting, and for whom such a service should be provided, cannot be carried out solely with reference to randomised controlled trials. Rather, reviews such as D B McNaughton's "A synthesis of qualitative home visiting research" (Public Health, November 2000), shows that the effectiveness of a specific intervention in a visit depends on what was achieved at earlier stages in the visit. This article prefaces "The effectiveness of home based support for older people", in the same issue of the British Medical Journal (BMJ). (RH).
Accession NumberCPA-011008218 A
ClassmarkL5H: N8: LK2: 5H: 4C *

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