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Hospital in the Home (HITH) programs are emerging as a key pillar of smart city healthcare infrastructure, leveraging technology to extend care beyond traditional hospital walls. The global healthcare sector has been conceptualizing the notion of a c...

Background: Advanced home care is becoming increasingly common for cancer patients and serves as a viable alternative to inpatient hospital care. The transition to home care is driven by both the rising costs of healthcare and evidence indicating bet...

An aging society is on the rise, leading to a variety of caregiving issues. The Taiwanese government has been implementing a home healthcare integration plan since 2015, aimed at integrating and forming interdisciplinary care teams with medical insti...

Nursing home (NH) residents are often transferred to hospital (emergency department (ED) visits or hospital admissions) and this occurs more frequently in males. However, respective reasons are rather unclear. We conducted a multicenter prospective s...

In July 2020, Mayo Clinic introduced a hospital-at-home program, known as Advanced Care at Home (ACH) as an alternate option for clinically stable medical patients requiring hospital-level care. This retrospective cohort study evaluates the impact of...

Continuous Intrathecal Drug Delivery through an implanted pump is a well-known therapeutic option for the management of chronic pain and severe disabling spasticity. To have a successful therapy, pump refills need to be performed at regular time inte...

Hospital-at-home (HaH) is a healthcare modality that provides active treatment by healthcare staff in the patient’s home for a condition that would otherwise require hospitalization. The aims were to describe the characteristics of different ty...

Background: Virtual hospital-at-home care might be an alternative to standard hospital care for patients with infectious diseases. In this study, we explore the potential for virtual hospital-at-home care and a potential design for this population. M...

The transition from hospital-based palliative care to home care is a critical phase often marked by logistical, medical, and emotional challenges. Effective discharge planning is essential to ensure continuity of care, yet gaps in communication, inte...

Hospital-at-home (HaH) care is useful for patients with COVID-19 and an alternative strategy when hospital capacity is under pressure due to patient surges. However, the efficacy and safety of HaH in elderly patients with COVID-19 remain unknown. In...

Emergency department (ED) visits and hospital admissions are common among nursing home residents (NHRs). Little is known about the perspectives of emergency medical services (EMS) which are responsible for hospital transports. The aim of this study w...

Clinic- and hospital-based home care describes models of care where services commonly associated with hospital inpatient care are provided at the patient’s home or in an outpatient or community-based clinic. Hospital in the Home (HITH), also te...

Aim: Since beds are unavailable, we prospectively investigated whether early hospital discharge will be safe and useful in patients hospitalized for COVID-19, regardless of their need for home oxygen therapy. Population and Methods: Extending the ini...

Discharge to home is considered appropriate as a treatment goal for diseases that often leave disabilities such as cerebral infarction. Previous studies showed differences in risk-adjusted in-hospital mortality and readmission rates; however, studies...

Background/Objectives: Hospital-at-home (HaH) programs expanded hospital capacity during the COVID-19 pandemic, but data on which HaH patients receiving intravenous (IV) remdesivir may require hospital escalation is limited. We therefore aimed to exp...

The costly and complex needs for children with long-term illness are challenging. Safe eHealth communication is warranted to facilitate health improvement and care services. This mixed-methods study aimed to describe parents’ usage and experiences of...

Dysphagia refers to swallowing difficulty, which impacts patients’ quality of life. Dysphagia influences clinical outcomes, including mortality rates and length of hospital stay of older hospitalized patients. Dysphagia may affect the current a...

We provided fall prevention programs using home floor plans for older adult patients discharged from an acute-care hospital and verified the fall prevention measures’ effectiveness six months after discharge. The research design was a prelimina...

Care transitions from hospital to home for older adults with malnutrition present a period of elevated risk; however, minimal data exist describing the existing practice. This study aimed to describe the transition of nutrition care processes provide...

The hospital-at-home (HaH) model delivers hospital-level acute care, including diagnostics, monitoring, and treatments, in a patient’s home. It is particularly effective for managing conditions such as pneumonia. Point-of-care ultrasonography (...

Technology-enhanced hospital-at-home (H@H), commonly referred to as hybrid H@H, became more widely adopted during the COVID-19 pandemic. We conducted focus group interviews with Mayo Clinic staff members (n = 14) delivering hybrid H@H in three separa...

The hospital-at-home (HaH) model offers hospital-level care within patients’ homes and has proven effective for managing conditions such as pneumonia. The point-of-care ultrasonography (PoCUS) is a key diagnostic tool in this model, especially...

The hospital-at-home (HaH) model delivers hospital-level care to patients in their homes, with point-of-care ultrasonography (PoCUS) serving as a cornerstone diagnostic tool for respiratory illnesses such as pneumonia. This review—the third in...

Drug–drug interactions (DDI) occurring with potentially inappropriate medications (PIM) are additional risk factors that may increase the inappropriate character of PIM. The aim of this study was (1) to describe the prevalence and severity of DDI in...

Body temperature must be monitored in patients receiving Hospital-at-Home (HaH) care for COVID-19 and other infectious diseases. Continuous temperature telemonitoring (CTT) detects fever and patient deterioration early, facilitating decision-making....

Evidence shows that community-based palliative home care (PHC) provision enhances continuous care and improves patient outcomes. This study compared patient survival, place of death, and medical utilization in community- versus hospital-based PHC. A...

Background: The hospital-at-home (HAH) model is a viable alternative for conventional in-hospital stays worldwide. Serum electrolyte abnormalities are common in acute patients, especially in those with many comorbidities. Pathologic changes in cardia...

Background/Objectives: Prolonged hospitalization of clinically stable preterm infants may lead to nosocomial infections, interfere with breastfeeding, and hinder parent-infant bonding. We evaluated the impact of an early discharge program with hospit...

Safe medication management is particularly challenging among polymedicated home-dwelling older adults after hospital discharge. This study aimed to identify and categorise the stressors experienced and reconstitution strategies adopted by older adult...

Background: Cefiderocol (CFD) is a novel cephalosporin targeting multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacterial (GNB) infections. It mimics siderophores to enter into GNB through iron transport receptors. However, evidence on its use in Hospital at Home...

Background: Resistant bacteria causing urinary tract infections (UTI) are becoming increasingly common worldwide. Patients suffering from such UTIs are often elderly, with complex medical backgrounds, and require prolonged hospital stays due to the f...

The aging of society is increasing the number of hospitalizations of nursing home residents. Telemedicine might help reduce the frequency of these potentially risk-associated hospitalizations. This scoping review looked for evidence of a change in th...

Background. Morbidities indicated for hospital-at-home (HAH) treatment include infectious diseases and exacerbations of chronic conditions. Electrolyte disturbances are not included per se. However, their rate is high. We aimed to describe our experi...

Importance: Heart failure (HF) is the leading cause of hospitalization among patients over the age of 65 in the United States and developed countries, posing a significant economic burden to the health care systems. More than half of the patients wit...

Background: The treatment of children with cancer is associated with significant burden for the entire family. Frequent clinic visits and extended hospital stays can negatively affect quality of life for children and their families. Methods: Here, we...

Antimicrobial resistance is a growing global health problem. Patients living in care homes are a vulnerable high-risk population colonized by multidrug-resistant organisms (MDRO). We identified a case series of 116 residents of care homes from a coho...

Nursing home placement after stroke indicates a poor outcome but numbers placed vary between hospitals. The aim of this study is to determine whether between-hospital variations in new nursing home placements post-stroke are reliant solely on case-mi...

Today, there is a shift towards care being given closer to the patient, with more children receiving care in their homes. Care at home has proven to be a viable alternative to hospital care, as shown by a project for hospital-based home care conducte...

The lack of evidence synthesis studies on the role of psychiatric mental health nursing in the context of psychiatric home hospitalization underscores the limited research on nurses providing care in these teams, particularly concerning their experie...

Background: Roughly 18% of all patients discharged from hospitals in the United States experience an unplanned hospital readmission (UHR) within 30 days of discharge. This can be life-threatening for patients and costs the U.S. health care system bil...

Background: Hospital-at-home (HAH) programs deliver hospital-level care in patients’ homes, improving satisfaction and optimizing resource use. While widely adopted in adults, pediatric HAH remains limited. At Sant Joan de Déu Hospital (...

Hospitals need to optimize patient care, as, among other factors, life expectancy has increased due to improvements in sanitation, nutrition, and medicines. Hospitalization-at-home (HaH) could increase admission efficiency, moderate costs, and reduce...

Energy and protein intakes lower than requirements are associated with worsening health outcomes. Here we set out to evaluate gaps between energy and protein intakes and requirements in older adults in hospitals and in nursing homes (NH). A cross-sec...

Objective: To measure the quality of the transition of care for COVID-19 patients after discharge from hospital to home. Method: A cross-sectional, prospective study carried out in a hospital in Santa Catarina, with 201 patients hospitalized for COVI...

Sustainability seems to be a hot topic today upon which a paradigmatic transformation is going on; this affects many fields and sectors by revealing the significant implications for actors’ participation, such as in healthcare. Today, healthcar...

Long-term care residential homes (LTCRH) for patients with chronic mental illness have suffered the enormous impact of COVID-19. This study aimed to estimate incidence, hospitalization, mortality, and risk factors of COVID-19 to prevent future epidem...

Cardiovascular diseases, particularly hypertension, pose a significant threat to global health, often referred to as a “silent killer”. Traditional cuff-based blood pressure monitors have limitations in terms of convenience and continuous...

COVID19 convalescent plasma (CCP) has proven an effective treatment for outpatients, and CCP collected from vaccinated donors is among the few effective therapeutic options for immunocompromised patients. Despite this, most countries are still relyin...

Hospitalization poses diverse challenges to school-aged youth well-being and their educational path. Some inpatients, due to the hospitalization duration, frequency or the needed recovery period at home, may struggle when returning to school. To help...

Prolonged admission to the neonatal intensive care unit presents challenges for families, especially those displaced far from home. Understanding specific barriers to parental engagement in the NICU is key to addressing these challenges with hospital...