The primary care workload and prescribing costs associated with patients with learning disability discharged from long-stay care to the community.
One-hundred-and-thirty-six patients with learning disability were discharged from a long-stay hospital to the community, and were registered with a total of 21 practices. This study estimated the additional general practice workload and prescribing costs incurred by the transferred patients, compare...
| Publicado en: | British Journal of Learning Disabilities Vol. 26; no. 1; pp. 9 - 13 |
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| Formato: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Mar1998
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| Sumario: | One-hundred-and-thirty-six patients with learning disability were discharged from a long-stay hospital to the community, and were registered with a total of 21 practices. This study estimated the additional general practice workload and prescribing costs incurred by the transferred patients, compared with age/sex matched controls from the same practices. The workload was recorded prospectively. General practitioners agreed that six-monthly health checks and medication reviews should be standard good practice primary healthcare for those with learning disability. Only three practices undertook proactive six-monthly health and medication reviews of all study patients. |
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