Population | Patients with chronic diseases, acute conditions, or in palliative care |
Intervention | Home-based hospitalization (HBH) |
Comparaison | Conventional hospital care |
Outcomes | Primary: indicators of HBH use on access, continuity, quality, and safety of care, clinical practices, organization of health services, costs at the patient, family, health system, and society levels Secondary: facilitating factors and barriers to the implementation of HBH at the environmental, organizational, staff, patient, and family levels. |
Study designs | Systematic review of quantitative, qualitative, or mixed-methods studies, with or without meta-analysis |