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| The role of a specialist team in implementing continuing health care guidelines in hospitalized patients | | Author(s) | Alice Cockram, Rose Gibb, Lalit Kalra |
| Journal title | Age and Ageing, vol 26, no 3, May 1997 |
| Pages | pp 211-216 |
| Keywords | Long term patients ; Physical disabilities ; Needs [elderly] ; Medical workers ; Evaluation ; Bromley. |
| Annotation | Specialist intervention, using a team approach, facilitates effective implementation of continuing care guidelines for hospital in-patients. The authors report on their study, in which a specialist team was responsible for assessment and enabling access to continuing health care in the hospital or the community on a non-age-related basis. Of 93 patients included, 26 had been inappropriately referred, having no continuing care needs; whilst 24 appropriate patients had not been referred because of inadequate assessments. The lack of expertise in some wards to identify complex problems requiring continuing care, even when defined criteria are available, is highlighted. The evaluation strongly supports collaborative working between health and social care organisations. Where it worked effectively - for 26 patients in the study - a high level of satisfaction with support and post-discharge arrangements was reported. |
| Accession Number | CPA-970905006 A |
| Classmark | LF7:4Q: BN: IK: QT: 4C: 82L7 |
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