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The ageing of the population — implications for multidisciplinary care in hospital
Author(s)	Ruth E Hubbard, M Sinead O'Mahoney, Eleri Cross
Journal title	Age and Ageing, vol 33, no 5, September 2004
Pages	pp 479-482
Source	http://www.ageing.oupjournals.org
Keywords	Hospital services ; Medical care ; Needs [elderly] ; Multi disciplinary ; Evaluation ; Vale of Glamorgan ; Cardiff.
Annotation	A high proportion of patients in hospital (69%) have multidisciplinary needs, as found in this study of 1,324 patients in 46 acute wards, 14 rehabilitation and 4 continuing care settings based in Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust. This inpatient population was quite old, with mean age of 65.3 years in acute wards, 73.5 in rehabilitation wards, and 80.8 in continuing care. Patient age correlates inversely with Barthel Index score, and the percentage of patients with multidisciplinary needs increased with increasing age. The calculated number of minutes of therapy time per day available to each patient varied between therapies and across sites. Mean physiotherapy time available per patient needing physiotherapy ranged from 17 minutes 41 seconds in acute wards to 26 minutes 24 seconds in rehabilitation wards. There is insufficient therapy time to provide for all those assessed as having needs. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-040921212 A
Classmark	LD: LK: IK: 3DM: 4C: 95: 95A
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