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Table 2 Project milestones

From: Evaluation of a Medical and Mental Health Unit compared with standard care for older people whose emergency admission to an acute general hospital is complicated by concurrent 'confusion': a controlled clinical trial. Acronym: TEAM: Trial of an Elderly Acute care Medical and mental health unit

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To

Activity

2006

2008

Programme planning and funding application

Feb 2009

July 2010

Planning, development and maturation of MMHU intervention

May 2009

June 2010

Recruitment and follow up of cohort (case series), pilot study for the trial

February 2010

 

Submission to Research Ethics Committee and Hospital Research governance

May 2010

July 2010

Pilot random allocation to MMHU or standard care

July 2010

December 2011

Trial recruitment (possible extension to July 2012)

October 2010

March 2012

Follow up

January 2011

December 2011

Non participant observer study

March 2012

October 2012

Final data cleaning, analysis, write up

April 2013

 

Service support funding ceases

July 2013

 

Research funding ceases