All Outputs (2)

Economic Evaluation of a General Hospital Unit for Older People with Delirium and Dementia (TEAM Randomised Controlled Trial) (2015)
Journal Article
Bradshaw, L. E., Tanajewski, L., Franklin, M., Gkountouras, G., Berdunov, V., Harwood, R. H., …Elliott, R. A. (2015). Economic Evaluation of a General Hospital Unit for Older People with Delirium and Dementia (TEAM Randomised Controlled Trial). PLoS ONE, 10(12), e0140662. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0140662

Background One in three hospital acute medical admissions is of an older person with cognitive impairment. Their outcomes are poor and the quality of their care in hospital has been criticised. A specialist unit to care for older people with delir... Read More about Economic Evaluation of a General Hospital Unit for Older People with Delirium and Dementia (TEAM Randomised Controlled Trial).

Identifying patient-level health and social care costs for older adults discharged from acute medical units in England (2014)
Journal Article
Franklin, M., Berdunov, V., Edmans, J., Conroy, S., Gladman, J. R., Tanajewski, L., …Elliott, R. A. (2014). Identifying patient-level health and social care costs for older adults discharged from acute medical units in England. Age and Ageing, 43(5), https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afu073

Background: Acute medical units allow for those who need admission to be correctly identified, and for those who could be managed in ambulatory settings to be discharged. However, readmission rates for older people following discharge from acute medi... Read More about Identifying patient-level health and social care costs for older adults discharged from acute medical units in England.