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Model Program Pediatric Extend Care

Children's Health Care, 1988
Chronically ill, technology dependent children deserve a more normalized environment than can be provided in an acute hospital setting. Children's Hospital, Inc., Columbus, Ohio, Northland Terrace Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, and the State of Ohio Department of Human Services collaborated to design a pilot project that would meet the needs of ...
R A, Chavez, S V, Schwab
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Prescribed Pediatric Extended Care

Nursing, 2022
Abstract: Prescribed Pediatric Extended Care (PPEC) can be a lifeline for families with children with special needs. This article aims to bring awareness to healthcare professionals who work with families, parents, guardians, and other caregivers about the benefits and availability of PPEC for their patients.
Christina, Maragh, Carmen, Caicedo
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Reducing Polypharmacy in Extended Care

Southern Medical Journal, 1995
In this 5-year prospective study, we determined the feasibility of reducing polypharmacy in a long-term care institution by a systematic review of the pharmacy records. At 6-month intervals, the computer printout of all medications prescribed to patients in a 550-bed institution was reviewed.
Hamdy, Ronald Charles, Moore, Sharon Wyatt, Whalen, Kathleen, Donnelly, John P., Compton, Rhonda, Testerman, Frank, Haulsee, Phyllis, Hughes, James   +7 more
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Extended Care-Giving:

Journal of Women & Aging, 1990
For the most part, care-giving is a function expected, even demanded, by terminally ill spouses, their families, and friends. This paper includes a brief introduction to issues surrounding care-giving , a fictionalized story of a long term care-giver, and interviews with ten women and two men who served as care-givers.
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MEDICAL CARE IN THE EXTENDED CARE FACILITY*

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 1971
A bstract : Seven case reports are used to illustrate various aspects of quality care for the ill aged in an extended care facility or a nursing home. The majority of these patients require maximal nursing care for activities of daily living.
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Rehabilitation in the Extended Care Facility

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 1979
Rehabilitation can be readily carried out in an extended care facility. A technique is presented for accomplishing this objective by organizing existing personnel within the facility into a rehabilitation team which is goal-oriented. The Barthel Index serves as an objective measurement of the patient's progress.
J W, Reed, J E, Gessner
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A Nursing‐Home Care Unit: Extended Care Service

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 1973
ABSTRACT: A new Nursing‐Home Care Unit, opened at the Miami Veterans Administration Hospital in September 1970, is described. The aim is to take the best possible care of the residents in all aspects of their lives during the process of rehabilitation. The Unit could be regarded as a model for nursing homes everywhere.
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Appropriate length of extended day care

International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, 2004
Extended day care (EDC) is a one‐day admission spending one night in hospital. Many EDC patients do not need hospital care over night, so probably they could be transferred to a day surgery setting, resulting in decreased costs and increased efficiency.
Lambert J G G, Panis, Frank W S M, Verheggen, Peter, Pop, Martin H, Prins   +3 more
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Community Pharmacist–Provided Extended Diabetes Care

Annals of Pharmacotherapy, 2009
Background Pharmacists in various settings have been effective in initiating diabetes treatment. Patients with diabetes require ongoing disease management, and community pharmacists are in a strategic position to provide such extended care. Little is known, however, about the effects of community pharmacist–provided interventions beyond the initial ...
William R, Doucette, Matthew J, Witry, Karen B, Farris, Randal P, McDonough   +3 more
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Scabies in the Extended Care Facility

International Journal of Dermatology, 1983
ABSTRACT: Scabies occurred in three nursing homes (two in Missouri and one in Pennsylvania) where the diagnosis was obscured by a lack of the usual clinical signs. Topical steroids can aggravate scabies and help to confirm the diagnosis; treatment with lindane lotion is successful, provided all patients and health personnel are treated.
L C, Parish, L E, Millikan, J A, Witkowski, R, Schwartzman   +3 more
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