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© 1989 Oxford University Press

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Geriatric Day Hospitals: Consultant and Community Units Compared

L. C. BARKER and S. T. MCCARTHY

Department of Geriatric Medicine,Radcliffe Infirmary,Oxford OX2 6HE

A consultant-led day hospital in a district general hospital (DGH) was compared with general practitioner-controlled day hospitals in community hospitals (CHs). CHs were more generously provided for their populations, 3.87 compared with 1.38 places per 1000, but less well staffed at 70% of the DGH levels. Patients were similar demographically and in dependence, but differed in some diagnoses; 33% of CH patients were referred for social reasons alone, compared with 2% in the DGH. CH patients received fewer treatment sessions each day, 2.11 compared with 2.55 in the DGH and the difference was mainly in medical input. Median duration of attendance was 332 days in the CH and 92 days in the DGH; the 6-month discharge rate was 67% in the CH and 35% in the DGH, with 48% of patients attending for more than a year in the CH compared with 24% in the DGH. This study suggests that while the DGH unit provides an active service the CH units offer supportive care which largely duplicates that which could be provided more cheaply in day centres.


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