Experiences of interventions to reduce hospital stay for older adults following elective treatment: Qualitative evidence-synthesis.

Findings explore the support patients, families and carers need throughout hospital admission, and may inform commissioning of services to ensure patients and carers receive appropriate follow-up support after hospital discharge. The findings may help hospital and community-based health and social care staff provide person-centred care based upon assessments of emotional and physical wellbeing of patients and family/carers. Research is needed to establish a core-set of patient-reported outcome measures which capture aspects of recovery which are meaningful to patients.