Peach H, Pathy M S
J Epidemiol Community Health (1978). 1978 Sep;32(3):215-8. doi: 10.1136/jech.32.3.215.
A longitudinal survey of the social support of patients attending one geriatric day hospital confirmed an impression that support was not being adjusted to meet the changing degrees of dependency among the patients. An experimental study, in which the social support available to a small group of consecutive new admissions was reduced, showed that their dependency scores were not significantly different from those of a control group which continued to receive support. The significance of this finding in reducing the cost of day hospital care is discussed.
一项针对一家老年日间医院患者社会支持情况的纵向调查证实了一种印象，即社会支持未根据患者不断变化的依赖程度进行调整。一项实验研究中，一小群连续新入院患者可获得的社会支持减少了，结果显示他们的依赖得分与继续接受支持的对照组患者的得分没有显著差异。本文讨论了这一发现对降低日间医院护理成本的意义。
