| Literature DB >> 16959931 |
Corine H M Latour1, Rien de Vos, Frits J Huyse, Peter de Jonge, Liesbeth A M van Gemert, Wim A B Stalman.
Abstract
This study was initiated to determine the impact of post-discharge, nurse-led, home-based case management intervention on the number of emergency readmissions, level of care utilization, quality of life, and psychological functioning. Patients discharged home from a general hospital (N=147) were randomly assigned to usual care or nurse-led, home-based, case management intervention. During the 24 weeks of follow-up, no difference between the two groups was found for readmission, care utilization, quality of life, or psychological functioning. Patients in the control group tended to move sooner to non-independent living accommodation than patients in the nurse-led, home-based, case management intervention group.Entities:
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Year: 2006 PMID: 16959931 DOI: 10.1176/appi.psy.47.5.421
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Psychosomatics ISSN: 0033-3182 Impact factor: 2.386