Hospital at Home

International evidence indicates HaH can match or improve clinical outcomes compared with inpatient care while reducing healthcare utilisation, readmissions, and overall cost. The Danish trial compared Hospital at Home with standard hospital admission for elderly acute medical patients. Hospital at Home episodes ended when home treatment formally terminated or when patients escalated to conventional hospital admission. On average, HaH patients in this pilot received 3.8 treatment days and 7.5 acute team visits per treatment course. Hospital-at-Home models deliver hospital-level treatment in patients' homes through collaboration between municipal acute teams and regional hospital physicians. Because HaH teams have fixed staffing, average cost per patient falls as long as capacity is not reached, but adding patients beyond capacity sharply increases marginal costs. The benefits of HaH depend on consistent implementation, adequate clinical oversight, sufficient patient volumes, and manageable travel distances. HaH models may shift practical or supervisory tasks to family members, representing a non-trivial component of total societal costs not captured in this study. Hospital at Home…