Outreach acute care for nursing homes: an observational study on the quality and cost-effectiveness of the Mobile Hospital
The Mobile Hospital seems to reduce nursing home residents' ED visits, hospitalisations and overall costs. Advance care planning and on-call physician telephone consultations may be useful components of the service.Implications to practice: This study adds to the growing evidence that outreach care to nursing homes is cost-effective in suburban areas with universal healthcare funding, at least as part of other developments in the acute care pathway.
Authors
- Perttu J. Kontunen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5549-9545)
- Laurence S. J. Roope (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9098-9331)
- Trena M. Paulus (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0579-1644)
- Linna Miika
- Castrén Maaret
Institutions
- University of Helsinki (FI)
- University of Eastern Finland (FI)
- Helsinki University Hospital (FI)
- Aalto University (FI)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Age and Ageing
- Published
- 2025-01-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afae287
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Emergency and Acute Care Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 4.51