Preventive home visits need improving

In the past two decades a substantial number of randomised controlled trials examining the effects of preventive home visits to elderly people living in the community have been performed. On p 754 van Haastregt et al present the results of a recent systematic review of these trials and show that there is no clear evidence in favour of positive effects from preventive home visits. The authors conclude that if substantial improvements in the effectiveness of such a programme cannot be achieved in the near future, then perhaps such visits should be discontinued.


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to StumbleUpon StumbleUpon   Add to Technorati Technorati    What's this?

Relevant Article

Effects of preventive home visits to elderly people living in the community: systematic review
Jolanda C M van Haastregt, Jos P M Diederiks, Erik van Rossum, Luc P de Witte, and Harry F J M Crebolder
BMJ 2000 320: 754-758. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Access jobs at BMJ Careers
Whats new online at Student BMJ