Community hospitals – the place of local service provision in a modernising NHS: an integrative thematic literature review

Table 6 Comparison occupied bed days in practices with and with and without access to general practitioner CH beds

	Practices with GP Beds: Differences in Occupied Bed Days (Compared to Practices with no GP Bed Access)
	Baker 1986	Hine 1996	Stark 2000
Geriatric Bed Use	50% reduction	88.5% reduction	34.5% reduction
General Medicine		26.9% reduction	39.7% reduction
Surgery	-	1.6% reduction	18% reduction
Other	9.7% reduction	-	4.9% reduction
Total	6.5% increase	7.6% increase	6.5% increase

Note: Baker compared practices in Oxford City with no access to GP beds to other Oxfordshire Practices with no access to GP beds, to Oxfordshire Practices with access to GP beds. Analyses were divided into General Medicine and Geriatrics (one category); other specialties and all specialties in DGHs or GP hospitals. The results presented are comparisons of non-Oxford City Practices with Practices with GP bed access. (Source: Stark 2000)

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