
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Bairstow, Phillip 
A1  - Ashe, Sarah 
A1  - Bairstow, Mary 
T1  - Hospital outreach service: Helping to prevent nursing home placement
JF  - Australian Health Review
JO  - Aust. Health Review
Y1  - 1998
VL  - 21
IS  - 4
SP  - 192
EP  - 202
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UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/AH980192 
N2  - An outreach service from a post-acute metropolitan teaching hospital delivered anintensive, multidisciplinary and coordinated allied health service, and achieved bothearly hospital discharge and the prevention or delay of nursing home placement. Thisarticle reports on three types of cases which illustrate how the service assisted wardteams, families and patients to determine whether nursing home placement wasessential. For a group of 20 cases, the total reduction in hospital length of stay was556 days, and home accommodation as an alternative to nursing homeaccommodation was achieved for a total of 7505 days. The article outlines a matrixof advantages and disadvantages, both tangible and intangible, of home versusnursing home accommodation. It is suggested that a full costing of this matrix wouldinform debate on the comparative merits of long-term home and nursing homeaccommodation. 
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