Hospital at home models alter nurses’ perception of acute care, frailty and risk, rather than simply reorganising services. As illustrated in our Evidence & practice article, Providing acute care at home to older adults with frailty: nurses’ experiences of working with a hospital at home service (page 29), transferring decision-making into people’s homes challenges entrenched assumptions that safety and expertise reside in hospital walls.
Lewis et al. (Mon,) studied this question.