Day Hospitals' Cost and Effectiveness: A Summary
- 1 December 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Gerontologist
- Vol. 27 (6) , 735-740
- https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/27.6.735
Abstract
A review of the literature concerning the effectiveness and cost of geriatric day hospitals revealed a large number of enthusiastic descriptive studies and four randomized control studies. One of the four studies demonstrated credible improvement in physical and emotional function in the day hospital versus a conventional care control group. The three randomized studies in which costs were examined revealed, however, substantially greater costs in the day hospital group.Keywords
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