From: Effective health care for older people living and dying in care homes: a realist review
Research focus of papers reviewed with one or more outcomes of interest (medication use; use of out-of-hours services; hospital admissions including emergency department attendances; length of hospital stay; and user satisfaction) | References |
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Medication management | |
End of life care | |
Resident health promotion (e.g. nutrition, flu prevention, tissue viability, oral health, functional improvement, dementia care, falls prevention) | |
Management of depression and related interventions | |
Pay for performance/audit | |
Interventions to promote health service use, integration of health and social care services in care homes including specialist roles and reduce use of secondary care |