Partnership nursing home care for dementia: the Glasgow experience--one-year follow-up.
The outcome of the transfer of 60 elderly patients suffering from dementia from hospital to nursing home care under a partnership contract was reviewed at 6 and 12 months following transfer. The nursing home population had fared badly compared with patients remaining in hospital during the first 3 months. This difference was less evident at 6 months follow-up and had disappeared at 12 months follow-up. It seems that a partnership agreement such as this can deliver a quality of health care at least as good as hospital treatment as long the transfer is handled carefully.
Lyons
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Leverndale Hospital, Glasgow, UK.
Cohen
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M
Henderson
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T
Walker
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D000368:Aged; D003704:Dementia / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009735:Nursing Homes; D010360:Patient Transfer; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D016896:Treatment Outcome