Against the backdrop of rapid ageing populations, there is an increasing recognition of the
need to integrate various health services for the elderly, not only to provide more …

Background The process of moving patients from a hospital to a home or another care
setting, also called transitional care, can lead to unwanted complications and negative …

Objective: to identify evidence of scientific production on hospital transition care provided to
the elderly. Method: an integrative review, with publications search in the MEDLINE …

Background Emerging evidence from the virtual ward care model showed that
multidisciplinary case management are inadequate to reduce readmissions or death for high …

Objective: to summarize and analyze the scientific production on care transition in the
hospital discharge of adult patients. Method: integrative review, conducted from May to July …

Background To reduce readmissions, it may be cost-effective to consider risk stratification,
with targeting intervention programs to patients at high risk of readmissions. In this study, we …

Background To cope with rising demand for healthcare services in Singapore, Regional
Health Systems (RHS) comprising of health and social care providers across care settings …

The effectiveness of interdisciplinary home healthcare service consisting of at least two or
more healthcare providers, such as a nurse, physician and physiotherapist, for community …

Objectives To evaluate the impact of comorbidities, acute illness burden and social
determinants of health on predicting the risk of frequent hospital admissions. Design …

Introduction: Hospital-at-home programmes are well described in the literature but not in
Asia. We describe a home-based inpatient substitutive care programme in Singapore, with …