Community hospitals--the place of local service provision in a modernising NHS: an integrative thematic literature review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Recent developments within the United Kingdom's (UK) health care system have re-awakened interest in community hospitals (CHs) and their role in the provision of health care. This integrative literature review sought to identify and assess the current evidence base for CHs.

Methods

A range of electronic reference databases were searched from January 1984 to either December 2004 or February 2005: Medline, Embase, Web of Knowledge, BNI, CINAHL, HMIC, ASSIA, PsychInfo, SIGLE, Dissertation Abstracts, Cochrane Library, Kings Fund website, using both keywords and text words. Thematic analysis identified recurrent themes across the literature; narrative analyses were written for each theme, identifying unifying concepts and discrepant issues.

Results

The search st

SUBMITTER: Heaney D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1769373 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature