BMJ  2006;333 (29 July), doi:10.1136/bmj.333.7561.0-b

Community hospitals are cost effective for post-acute care of elderly patients

The health outcomes and costs associated with community hospital care for older people needing rehabilitation are similar to those of a department for care of elderly people in a district general hospital, say O'Reilly and colleagues on page 228. Within a randomised trial of 220 older patients, they assessed the cost-effectiveness of post-acute care in both settings and found that the mean quality adjusted life years score at six months and the mean costs per patient were similar.

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A cost effectiveness analysis within a randomised controlled trial of post-acute care of older people in a community hospital

Jacqueline O'Reilly, Karin Lowson, John Young, Anne Forster, John Green, and Neil Small
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