A prospective study of consecutive emergency medical admissions to compare a novel automated computer-aided mortality risk score and clinical judgement of patient mortality risk.

Objectives: To compare the performance of a validated automatic computer-aided risk of mortality (CARM) score versus medical judgement in predicting the risk of in-hospital mortality for patients following emergency medical admission.

Design: A prospective study.

Setting: Consecutive emergency medical admissions in York hospital.

Effectiveness of a multi-component intervention to reduce delirium incidence in elderly care wards.

Objective: to examine the effect of a multi-component, delirium prevention intervention on rates of incident delirium for patients admitted to specialist elderly care wards.

Design: 'before' and 'after' study.

Setting: three specialist elderly care wards in a general hospital.

Postacute care for older people in community hospitals: a multicenter randomized, controlled trial.

Objectives: To compare the effects of community hospital care on independence for older people needing rehabilitation with that of general hospital care.

Design: Randomized, controlled trial.

Setting: Seven community hospitals and five general hospitals in the midlands and north of England.

Using targeted risk factor reduction to prevent falls in older in-patients: a randomised controlled trial.

Background: falls and related injuries are known to be a significant problem for older people. There is evidence that identifying and addressing individual risk factors can reduce the incidence of falls in the community but no evidence of the effectiveness of targeted risk factor reduction methods applied to hospital in-patients.

Objective: to test the efficacy of a targeted risk factor reduction core care plan in reducing risk of falling while in hospital.