Growing old at home - A randomized controlled trial to investigate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of preventive home visits to reduce nursing home admissions: Study protocol [NCT00644826]

BMC Public Health

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Fleischer, Steffen ^a   Roling, Gudrun ^a   Beutner, Katrin ^a   Hanns, Stephanie ^a   Behrens, Johann ^a   Luck, Tobias ^b   Kuske, Bettina ^b   Angermeyer, Matthias C ^c   Riedel Heller, Steffi G ^b   Heinrich, Sven ^b   König, Hans H ^b   Lautenschläger, Christine ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c Center for Public Mental Health   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; COST UTILITY ANALYSIS; COUNSELING; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HOME CARE; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NURSING HOME; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK REDUCTION; SAMPLE SIZE; AGED; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; ELDERLY CARE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; STATISTICS;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; NURSING HOMES; PATIENT ADMISSION;

EID: 47249095024     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-8-185     Document Type: Article

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