Background: Delivering hospital-level care with comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA)
in the home is one approach to deal with the increased demand for bed-based hospital care…

Background: Avoidance of admission through provision of hospital care at home is a scheme
whereby health care professionals provide active treatment in the patient's home for a …

… Provenance: Sasha Shepperd and colleagues' Viewpoint was initially submitted for the
Guidelines and Guidance section of PLoS Medicine and externally peer reviewed. The other two …

Assessment of risk of bias is regarded as an essential component of a systematic review on
the effects of an intervention. The most commonly used tool for randomised trials is the …

OBJECTIVE: To develop a short instrument, called DISCERN, which will enable patients
and information providers to judge the quality of written information about treatment choices. …

In systematic reviews that lack data amenable to meta-analysis, alternative synthesis methods
are commonly used, but these methods are rarely reported. This lack of transparency in …

Background Discharge planning is a routine feature of health systems in many countries. The
aim of discharge planning is to reduce hospital length of stay and unplanned readmission …

ContextComprehensive discharge planning plus postdischarge support may reduce
readmission rates for older patients with congestive heart failure (CHF).ObjectiveTo evaluate the …

Background Individuals with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection are at an increased
risk of developing active tuberculosis (TB). It is known that treatment of latent TB infection …

Background Telemedicine (TM) is the use of telecommunication systems to deliver health
care at a distance. It has the potential to improve patient health outcomes, access to health …