Li, Ran;
Geng, Jiawei;
Liu, Jibin;
Wang, Gaoren;
Hesketh, Therese;
(2022)
Effectiveness of integrating primary healthcare in aftercare for older patients after discharge from tertiary hospitals-a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Age and Ageing
, 51
(6)
, Article afac151. 10.1093/ageing/afac151.
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Abstract
BACKGROUND: Quality of aftercare can crucially impact health status of older patients and reduce the extra burden of unplanned healthcare resource utilisation. However, evidence of effectiveness of primary healthcare in supporting aftercare, especially for older patients after discharge are limited. METHODS: We searched for English articles of randomised controlled trials published between January 2000 and March 2022. All-cause hospital readmission rate and length of hospital stay were pooled using a random-effects model. Subgroup analyses were conducted to identify the relationship between intervention characteristics and the effectiveness on all-cause hospital readmission rate. RESULTS: A total of 30 studies with 11,693 older patients were included in the review. Compared with patients in the control group, patients in the intervention group had 32% less risk of hospital readmission within 30 days (RR = 0.68, P < 0.001, 95%CI: 0.56-0.84), and 17% within 6 months (RR = 0.83, P < 0.001, 95%CI: 0.75-0.92). According to the subgroup analysis, continuity of involvement of primary healthcare in aftercare had significant effect with hospital readmission rates (P < 0.001). Economic evaluations from included studies suggested that aftercare intervention was cost-effective due to the reduction in hospital readmission rate and risk of further complications. CONCLUSION: Integrating primary healthcare into aftercare was designed not only to improve the immediate transition that older patients faced but also to provide them with knowledge and skills to manage future health problems. There is a pressing need to introduce interventions at the primary healthcare level to support long-term care.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Effectiveness of integrating primary healthcare in aftercare for older patients after discharge from tertiary hospitals-a systematic review and meta-analysis |
| Location: | England |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1093/ageing/afac151 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afac151 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Geriatrics Society. All rights reserved. For permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oup.com This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com |
| Keywords: | aftercare, discharge, long-term care, older people, primary health, systematic review, Aftercare, Humans, Length of Stay, Patient Discharge, Patient Readmission, Tertiary Care Centers |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute for Global Health UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10151224 |
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