The evidence for services to avoid or delay residential aged care admission: a systematic review.

BMC Geriatr · 2019 · PMC6686247 · PMID 31395018

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just failed to reach significancep = 0.08so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

Firstly considering all interventions compared to control, there was a standardized mean effect of 0.51, however this just failed to reach significance (95% CI -0.06, 1.09; p = 0.08) (see forest plot in Additional file 3 ).

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showed a trendno p-value reported

While single focus interventions did not show a significant effect in reducing residential aged care admission, many of them showed a trend towards reducing admission and could be considered as elements within a multifactorial intervention project in future research.

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