COPE-Mitgliedschaft für Primary and Hospital Care

Integration of primary care and hospital care

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Does increased access to primary care reduce hospital readmissions? Veterans Affairs Cooperative Study Group on Primary Care and Hospital Readmission.

BACKGROUND For chronically ill patients, readmission to the hospital can be frequent and costly. We studied the effect of an intervention designed to increase access to primary care after discharge from the hospital, with the goals of reducing readmissions and emergency department visits and increasing patients' quality of life and satisfaction with care. METHODS In a multicenter randomized, ...

Substitution of Hospital Care with Primary Care: Defining the Conditions of Primary Care Plus

OBJECTIVE To analyse barriers and facilitators in substituting hospital care with primary care to define preconditions for successful implementation. METHODS A descriptive feasibility study was performed to collect information on the feasibility of substituting hospital care with primary care. General practitioners were able to refer patients, about whom they had doubts regarding diagnosis, t...

Pandemic influenza--how would you and your hospital cope?

The long term importance of English primary care groups for integration in primary health care and deinstitutionalisation of hospital care

PURPOSE This article reviews the impact of successive experiments in the development of primary care organisations in England and assesses the long-term importance of English primary care groups for the integration of health and community and health and social care and the deinstitutionalisation of hospital care. THEORY Governments in a number of Western countries are attempting to improve th...