Secondary analysis and literature review of community rehabilitation and intermediate care: an information resource

Ariss SM, Enderby P, Smith T, Nancarrow S, Bradburn M, Harrop D, Parker S, McDonnell A, Dixon S, Ryan T, Hayman A, Campbell M
Record ID 32015000098
English
Authors' objectives: (1) To identify those patients most likely to benefit from IC and those who would be best placed to receive care elsewhere; (2) to examine the effectiveness of different models of IC; (3) to explore the differences between IC service configurations and how they have changed over time; and (4) to use the findings above to develop accessible evidence to guide service commissioning and monitoring.
Authors' recommendations: This study provides additional evidence that interdisciplinary teamworking in intermediate care (IC) may be associated with better outcomes for patients, but care should be taken with overinterpretation. The measures that were used within the studies were found to be reliable, valid and practical and could be used for benchmarking. This study highlights the need for funding high-quality studies that attempt to examine what specific team-level factors are associated with better outcomes for patients. It is therefore important that studies in the future attempt empirically to examine what process-level team variables are associated with these outcomes.
Details
Project Status: Completed
Year Published: 2015
URL for published report: http://www.journalslibrary.nihr.ac.uk/hsdr/hsdr03010/#/abstract
English language abstract: An English language summary is available
Publication Type: Not Assigned
Country: England, United Kingdom
MeSH Terms
  • Community Health Services
  • Delivery of Health Care
  • Personnel Staffing and Scheduling
  • Rehabilitation Centers
  • National Health Programs
  • Northern Ireland
Contact
Organisation Name: NIHR Health Services and Delivery Research programme
Contact Address: NIHR Journals Library, National Institute for Health and Care Research, Evaluation, Trials and Studies Coordinating Centre, Alpha House, University of Southampton Science Park, Southampton SO16 7NS, UK
Contact Name: journals.library@nihr.ac.uk
Contact Email: journals.library@nihr.ac.uk
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