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Shifting Patterns of Physician Home Visits
Journal of Primary Care & Community Health, 2016 Objectives: Home visits have been shown to improve quality of care and lower medical costs for complex elderly patients. We investigated trends in physician home visits and domiciliary care visits as well as physician characteristics associated with ...
Tomoko Sairenji +2 more
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Virtual home visits training regarding personal safety for postgraduate trainees in general practice – learning gain and feelings of anxiety with video and 360° VR applications [PDF]
BMC Medical EducationBackground Performing home visits needs to be trained with regards to the general practitioners’ safety in unknown environment. Since real home visits cannot be standardized, we aimed for the implementation of virtual home visits into postgraduate ...
Luisa Maichle +2 more
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Extended home visits from child healthcare nurses and dental nurses: an interview study with first-time parents participating in the home visit program in southern Sweden [PDF]
Frontiers in Public HealthIntroductionThis study is a part of a series of studies on a health and social care home-visit program in Sweden called Grow Safely. The program aimed to reduce health disparities in underprivileged areas.
Karin Persson +2 more
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Occupational therapists' perceptions of predischarge home assessments with older adults in acute care [PDF]
, 2008 Predischarge occupational therapy home assessments are routinely performed with older adults in Europe, Australia and North America. Their primary aim is to facilitate a timely and safe discharge from hospital.
Atwal, A, Hunt, J, McIntyre, A, Craik, C
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American Journal of Health Economics, 2021 This paper evaluates the introduction of preventive home visits (PHV) for older people in Norway. Their purpose is to support autonomy and independence as well as preventing disability and nursing home admissions. We contribute to the literature by exploiting a natural experiment in Norwegian municipalities.
Bannenberg, Norman +4 more
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Promoting gender equity in a home visits programme: a qualitative study in Northern Nigeria [PDF]
BMC Women's HealthBackground Gender inequities remain critical determinants influencing maternal health. Harmful gender norms and gender-based violence adversely affect maternal health.
Loubna Belaid +7 more
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Renal Failure, 2022 Introduction Virtual home visits may improve chronic disease management. However, whether they are suitable for peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients has not yet been fully investigated.
Jin Chen +10 more
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Swiss Medical Weekly, 2021 INTRODUCTION In the context of an aging population, homecare visits by family physicians may contribute to maintaining older patients at home; however, home visits by family physicians have decreased in number in the last decade with the ...
Joachim Lutula +4 more
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Swiss Medical Weekly, 2023 BACKGROUND: Worldwide, the number of home visits has been decreasing over past decades. Lack of time and long journeys have been reported to hinder general practitioners (GPs) from conducting home visits.
Rafael D. Fritz +2 more
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