The large number of events and participants will allow adequately powered subgroup analyses for specific populations such as elderly patients, women, or people with different severity of diabetes.
The large number of events and participants should allow adequately powered subgroup analyses for specific populations such as elderly patients, women, or people with different severity of diabetes.
In Sweden, the UK and New Zealand; NMP was commenced in order to improve the efficiency of services for specific groups, such as elderly people or those who receive nursing care in the community [ 14, 15].
More recently, studies performed in London and 12 US cities reported an increase of admissions for specific causes in the elderly and evidence of a harvesting effect [ 8, 9].
A second strategy has prioritized the allocation of resources to intermediate inpatient structures for specific types of patients, namely elderly and disabled people, post-acute patients in need of rehabilitation and long-term care, and patients in hospices.
A second group of LHAs prioritized the allocation of resources to focus on intermediate inpatient structures for specific types of patients, namely elderly and disabled people, post-acute patients needing rehabilitation and long-term care, and those in hospices.
There are numerous recommendations made for specific groups of victims, including the elderly, men, LGBTI victims, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, and those from ethnically diverse communities.
Furthermore, treatment options for specific patient populations such as the elderly, those with high-risk cytogenetic abnormalities and those with refractory disease are yet to be defined in the current treatment landscape.
Not negligible differences have been reported also within Europe, particularly for elderly people and for specific cancer sites [ 41].
Other LHAs prefer to focus their resources on intermediate structures, each providing care for specific clusters of patients (e.g., elderly people, post-acute and chronic patients, disabled people) and mirroring hospital settings through the establishment of a network of non-hospital structures with a higher level of appropriateness in relation to their inhabitants' needs.
