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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...

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Published in:British Journal of Learning Disabilities Vol. 26; no. 1; pp. 9 - 13
Main Author: Chambers R
Format: research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Mar1998
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        affil: Professor of Health Commissioning, School of Health, Staffordshire University, Leek Road, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffs ST4 2DF, UK
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          Developmental Disabilities
          Primary Health Care
          Health Resource Utilization
          United Kingdom
          Prospective Studies
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          Transfer, Discharge
          Community Living
          Long Term Care
          Health Care Costs
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          Human
          Adult: 19-44 years
      ab: 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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