A new model of care and in-house general practitioners for residential aged care facilities: a stepped wedge, cluster randomised trial.

CONCLUSIONS: Recruiting GPs to work directly in residential aged care facilities is difficult, but may reduce the burden of unplanned presentations to hospitals and increase the reporting of adverse events. TRIAL REGISTRATION: Australia New Zealand Clinical Trial Registry, ACTRN12613000218796 (25 February 2013). PMID: 32237279 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Medical Journal of Australia - Category: General Medicine Tags: Med J Aust Source Type: research