On-Call: Out-of-Hours Telephone Calls and Home Visits
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Economic evaluation of the differential benefits of home visits with telephone calls and telephone calls only in transitional discharge support
BACKGROUND home visits and telephone calls are two often used approaches in transitional care, but their differential economic effects are unknown. OBJECTIVE to examine the differential economic benefits of home visits with telephone calls and telephone calls only in transitional discharge support. DESIGN cost-effectiveness analysis conducted alongside a randomised controlled trial (RCT). ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Postgraduate Medical Journal
سال: 1990
ISSN: 0032-5473
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.66.773.255-b