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Barriers and Facilitators to Scale-Up of Hospital-at-Home: An Observational Cohort Study Protocol
Hospital-at-Home interventions have been shown to be clinically and cost-effective, and many healthcare systems internationally are investing in scaling-up such interventions. However, most existing studies focus on how effective the intervention is, rather than how to successfully scale it up. We report a study protocol for a theory-driven investigation of a Hospital-at-Home intervention. We propose a novel combination of two established implementation science frameworks—the EPIS framework and the Scale-Up framework—and apply it to a planned scale-up of a Hospital-at-Home intervention in Singapore.
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Hospital-at-Home programs, including those supported by the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), have shown comparable or better clinical outcomes and patient satisfaction compared with traditional inpatient care, often at lower costs—but many programs struggle to scale due to implementation challenges.
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