Journal article
Day Hospitals' Cost and Effectiveness: A Summary1
Abstract
A review of the literature concerning the effectiveness and cost of geriatric day hospitals revealed a large number of enthusiastic descriptive studies and four randomized control studies. One of the four studies demonstrated credible improvement in physical and emotional function in the day hospital versus a conventional care control group. The three randomized studies in which costs were examined revealed, however, substantially greater costs …
Authors
Eagle DJ; Guyatt G; Patterson C; Turpie I
Journal
The Gerontologist, Vol. 27, No. 6, pp. 735–740
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Publication Date
December 1, 1987
DOI
10.1093/geront/27.6.735
ISSN
0016-9013