A hospital-based special care unit for dementia decreased hospital readmission rates for behaviour while reducing rates of falls and occupational violence across medical wards.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Hospital-based Special Care Units (SCU) for dementia show promise as effective models of care. However, limited research describes hospital-wide benefits.

Objective

To describe patient-level outcomes and hospital service-level outcomes of a SCU.

Design

Pre-post analyses of SCU-patient data and hospital service-unit incident report data.

Setting, participants

2-years of SCU-patient admissions and 4-years of hospital incident-reports from four medical wards (2-years pre-post SCU).

Methods

Admission and discharge severity of SCU-patients' behaviour was prospectively measured by specialist SCU nurses. One-year hospitalisation rates, length-of-stay, diagnosis and patient demographics were retrospectively obtained from medical records. Hospital serv

SUBMITTER: Graham FA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12009545 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature