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. 2024 Mar 5;2024(3):CD007491. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD007491.pub3

2. Referral, hospital at home provision, and types of care in the included studies.

  Andrei 2011 Caplan 1999 Corwin 2005 Davies 2000 Echevarria 2018 Harris 2005 Kalra 2000 Levine 2018 Levine 2020 Mendoza 2009 Nicholson 2001 Ricauda 2004 Ricauda 2008 Richards 2005 Shepperd 2021 Talcott 2011 Tibaldi 2004 Tibaldi 2009 Vianello 2013 Wilson 1999
Mode of referral
Emergency room X X X X       X X X X X X X     X X X  
Community (by primary care physician)           X X                         X
Outpatient department                               X        
From admission < 24 hours         X                              
Acute assessment unit/home                             X          
Hospital at home provision
Hospital outreach team   X     X X   X X X   X X     X X X    
Mix of outreach/community staff       X     X       X       X       X  
GP/community nursing staff     X                     X           X
Unclear X                                      
Types of care
Physiotherapy         X X X       X X X   X   X     X
Social worker       X   X X X X     X       X X     X
Occupational therapy         X X X X X   X       X         X
Counsellor                               X        
Speech therapist             X         X                
Cultural link worker                                       X
Portable ventilator                                     X  

GP: general practitioner