Communication behaviours in a hospital setting: an observational study

Objective: An exploratory study to identify patterns of communication behaviour among hospital based healthcare workers.

Fatality outside hospital from acute coronary events in three British health districts, 1994-5

Objectives: To provide a contemporary account of the treatment and outcomes of acute coronary attacks in England and Wales and to identify strategies that might improve the outcome.

Medical and psychosocial effects of early discharge after surgery for breast cancer: randomised trial

Objective: To assess the medical and psychosocial effects of early hospital discharge after surgery for breast cancer on complication rate, patient satisfaction, and psychosocial outcomes.

Randomised controlled trial comparing hospital at home care with inpatient hospital care. I: three month follow up of health outcomes

Objectives: To compare hospital at home care with inpatient hospital care in terms of patient outcomes.

Randomised controlled trial comparing hospital at home care with inpatient hospital care. II: cost minimisation analysis

Objectives: To examine the cost of providing hospital at home in place of some forms of inpatient hospital care.

Randomised controlled trial comparing effectiveness and acceptability of an early discharge, hospital at home scheme with acute hospital care

Objective: To compare effectiveness and acceptability of early discharge to a hospital at home scheme with that of routine discharge from acute hospital.

Hospital at home or acute hospital care? A cost minimisation analysis

Objective: To compare, from the viewpoints of the NHS and social services and of patients, the costs associated with early discharge to a hospital at home scheme and those associated with continued care in an acute hospital.

Effectiveness of home care programmes for patients with incurable cancer on their quality of life and time spent in hospital: systematic review

Objective: To investigate whether for patients with incurable cancer comprehensive home care programmes are more effective than standard care in maintaining the patients’ quality of life and reducing their “readmission time” (percentage of days spent in hospital from start of care till death).