Table 1.

Participants and outcome in selected studies

Transition
Participants	Hospital to geriatric rehabilitation	Hospital to post-acute care	Rehabilitation or post-acute care to home
Internal medical patients	Luthy [37], Meyer [42]	Boyd [33], Cullum [35], D’Souza [40], Koch [36], Liu [41]
Acute geriatric patients	Hartley [43]	Gijzel [30], Hartley [38], Lyons [44]
Acute hospital patients	Buurman [34], Koné [26]	Bowles [25], Jackson [39]
Medical geriatric rehabilitation patients			Hubbard [49], Kortebein [28], Luk [50], Singh [51], Wakabayashi [48]
Geriatric rehabilitation patients			Abrahamsen [29], Abrahamsen [32], Arjunan [52], Gill [45], Jupp [55], Leung [27], Ling [46], Simning [47], Peel [31]

Acute geriatric patients: admitted to Department of Medicine for the elderly wards or to geriatric wards. Medical geriatric rehabilitation patients: patients with neurological or internal, non-surgical, rehabilitation diagnoses.