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Does home based medication review keep older people out of hospital? The HOMER randomised controlled trial

BMJ 2005; 330 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.38338.674583.AE (Published 03 February 2005) Cite this as: BMJ 2005;330:293

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Sir.

A reduction of mortality rate of one quarter per six months would be
a spectacular result for any intervention..

Greater than most common interventions.

This study was not designed, powered, or analysed so as to enable us
to know how much of this benefit to credit to the 100% increase in
Phamacist, the 45% in GP, or the 30% in hospital episodes.

It seems to have been designed with the primary objective of fewer
hospital admissions..is this a fair assumption?

Kind regards

David Leopold

Consultant Physician

South Wales

Competing interests:
None declared

Competing interests: No competing interests

04 February 2005
John david leopold
Consultant Physician
SWn-y-mor, sa34je
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