Acceptability to Patients of a Home Hospital

Abstract

Patients may be ready to accept home hospital as an alternative for acute care. The acceptability of home hospital to acutely ill older patients is a critical factor in the development of this alternative for care and has the potential for improving satisfaction with care, reducing complications, hastening return to function, and, possibly, of lowering costs of care.

Hospitalización a domicilio: oportunidad para el cambio

“…Tambié n se considera imprescindible la existencia de una persona que ejerza las funciones de cuidador 25 y finalmente la HAD se lleva a cabo con el consentimiento del enfermo y de sus familiares 26 .…”

Older Persons' Preferences for Home vs Hospital Care in the Treatment of Acute Illness

“…In this study, which described a program in which the patient would receive a physician house call daily, 72% of patients said they would prefer treatment at home. 20 These findings have clear implications for decision making about acute illness if preferences are to inform these decisions. Home treatment is a desired alternative only if it provides equivalent outcomes to hospitalization.…”

Cost analysis of a hospital-at-home initiative using discrete event simulation

“…The concept of hospital-at-home, which originated as 'hospitalisation à domicile' in France and is now used internationally to treat patients with a variety of conditions in their home environments, [3][4][5][6][7][8][9] was taken up, as a 'winter pressures' initiative, by Hillingdon Health Authority in West London. In November 1997, the health authority commissioned Hillingdon Hospital NHS Trust with the London Borough of Hillingdon Social Services Department, and Harrow and Hillingdon Healthcare NHS Trust, to provide a rapid response hospital-at-home service.…”