Factors associated with the workload of health professionals in hospital at home: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Understanding the factors related to workload, could help hospital at home (HaH) managers to make decisions on the most appropriate and efficient use of the HaH services. Published studies on this topic are scarce, so we have conducted a systematic review to identify such factors according to published evidence.

Methods

Due to the heterogeneity of HaH models, HaH was defined as a care that provides a set of medical and nursing care and attention of hospital rank to patients at home, when they no longer require hospital infrastructure but still need active monitoring and complex care. The electronic data base literature search was conducted in MEDLINE (Ovid), EMBASE (Ovid), and Cinahl (EBSCOhost) from inception to December 2021, including grey literature. Search te

SUBMITTER: Cordero-Guevara JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9134652 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature