Proactive primary care model for frail older people in New Zealand delays aged-residential care: A quasi-experiment.
Thomas E RobinsonMichal L BoydDiana NorthJean WignallMartin DaweJean McQueenRosemary A FreyDeborah L RaphaelNgaire KersePublished in: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (2021)
The Kare participants had lower aged-residential care placement and mortality in the first year, but no decrease in acute hospitalization. Because the design is nonexperimental caution is required in interpreting these results.
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