Effectiveness of facility-based transition care on health-related outcomes for older adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Background: Although Transition Care Programmes (TCP) are designed to assist older adults to regain functional ability after hospitalisation, it is unclear whether TCP improve older adults' health-related outcomes.

Objectives: The objective of the review was to synthesise the best available evidence for the effectiveness of TCP on health-related outcomes for older adults admitted to a transition care facility after hospitalisation.

Methods: Searches were conducted using the databases PubMed, AMED (Ovid), Embase (Ovid), PscyINFO (Ovid) and CINAHL (Full text) and grey literature from January 2000 to May 2020 in English only.