Evaluation of a Medical and Mental Health Unit compared with standard care for older people whose emergency admission to an acute general hospital is complicated by concurrent 'confusion': A controlled clinical trial. Acronym: TEAM: Trial of an Elderly Acute care Medical and mental health unit

Trials

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Harwood, Rowan H ^a,b   Goldberg, Sarah E ^a   Whittamore, Kathy H ^a,b   Russell, Catherine ^a,b   Gladman, John R F ^a   Jones, Rob G ^a,b   Porock, Davina ^c   Lewis, Sarah A ^a   Bradshaw, Lucy E ^a   Elliot, Rachel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DISABILITY; FOLLOW UP; GERIATRIC HOSPITAL; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL STAFF; MENTAL HEALTH CENTER; NON PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION; PATIENT CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SAMPLE SIZE; AGE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DELIRIUM; DEMENTIA; ECONOMICS; ELDERLY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITAL SUBDIVISIONS AND COMPONENTS; LENGTH OF STAY; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED KINGDOM;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; CAREGIVERS; COGNITION; CONFUSION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DELIRIUM; DEMENTIA; DISABILITY EVALUATION; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; ENGLAND; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HOSPITAL COSTS; HOSPITAL UNITS; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; PATIENT ADMISSION; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PATIENT READMISSION; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH DESIGN; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79959275019     PISSN: 17456215     EISSN: 17456215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6215-12-123     Document Type: Article

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