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Prospective cohort study on the incidence and risk factors of emergency home visits among Japanese home care patients

Journal of General and Family Medicine, 2021
Background Population aging requires more physician home visits, and various measures need to be taken to reduce the burden on visiting physicians. However, the incidence and associated factors of burdensome emergency home visits remain unclear. We aimed
Koki Kato, Masaya Tomita, Moe Kato, Takaaki Goto, Kyukei Nishizono   +4 more
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Preventive Home Visits for Mortality, Morbidity, and Institutionalization in Older Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [PDF]

, 2014
Background Home visits for older adults aim to prevent cognitive and functional impairment, thus reducing institutionalization and mortality. Visitors may provide information, investigate untreated problems, encourage medication compliance, and ...
Grant, S., Kristen Underhill (275353), Parsons, Amanda, Sean Grant (3282117), Montgomery, Paul; id_orcid, Montgomery, P., Underhill, Kristen, Amanda Parsons (534335), Burton, J, Mayo-Wilson, E., Mayo-Wilson, E, Jennifer Burton (534334), Jennifer Burton, Kristen Underhill, Mayo-Wilson, Evan, Amanda Parsons, Grant, S, Evan Mayo-Wilson, Montgomery, P, Paul Montgomery, Underhill, K., Parsons, A, Paul Montgomery (127618), Grant, Sean, Underhill, K, Burton, Jennifer, Evan Mayo-Wilson (416332), Burton, J., Sean Grant, Parsons, A.   +29 more
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Episodic medical home interventions in severe bedridden Chronic Respiratory Failure patients: a 4 year retrospective study

Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease, 2016
Background and Aim. Home care for respiratory patients includes a complex array of services delivered in an uncontrolled setting. The role of a respiratory specialist inside the home healthcare team has been scarcely studied up to now.
L. Barbano, E. Bertella, M. Vitacca
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Evaluating the implementation of community volunteer assessment and referral of sick babies: lessons learned from the Ghana Newhints home visits cluster randomized controlled trial. [PDF]

, 2014
A World Health Organization (WHO)/United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) (2009) joint statement recommended home visits by community-based agents as a strategy to improve newborn survival, based on promising results from Asia.
Owusu-Agyei, S, Weobong, B, Soremekun, S, ten Asbroek, Augustinus, Owusu-Agyei, Seth, Kirkwood, Betty R., Hill, Zelee, Danso, Samuel, Kirkwood, BR, Gyan, Thomas, Kirkwood, Betty R, Tawiah-Agyemang, Charlotte, Ansah Manu, Alexander, Hill, Z, Soremekun, Seyi, Weobong, Benedict, Tawiah-Agyemang, C, Ansah Manu, A, Amenga-Etego, S, Danso, S, ten Asbroek, A, Amenga-Etego, Seeba, Gyan, T   +22 more
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The effect of home visits as an additional recruitment step on the composition of the final sample: a cross-sectional analysis in two study centers of the German National Cohort (NAKO)

BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2021
Background Participation in epidemiologic studies has been declining over the last decades. In addition to postal invitations and phone calls, home visits can be conducted to increase participation.
Lilian Krist, Ahmed Bedir, Julia Fricke, Alexander Kluttig, Rafael Mikolajczyk   +4 more
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Home visits made by general practitioners in the canton of Vaud between 2006 and 2015

Swiss Medical Weekly, 2019
AIM OF THE STUDY Although physicians’ home visits are highly valued by patients, and are among the measures that contribute to maintaining elderly patients at home, their number is decreasing worldwide. We aimed to describe the trends in home
Yolanda K. Mueller, Stéphane David, Christine Cohidon, Isabella Locatelli, Nicolas Senn   +4 more
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Physiotherapy in Indian communities: a brief review [PDF]

Health Promotion Perspectives, 2017
Background: Importance of community rehabilitation in India has been emphasized in previous research. There is ample research that has been published for different communities in the country.
Pavithra Rajan
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Evaluation of enhanced home care support clinics regarding emergency home visits, hospitalization, and end-of-life care: a retrospective cohort study in a city of Japan

BMC Health Services Research, 2023
Background To meet the increasing demand for home healthcare in Japan as the population ages, home care support clinics/hospitals (HCSCs) and enhanced HCSCs were introduced in 2006 and 2012, respectively.
Yu Sun, Masao Iwagami, Nobuo Sakata, Tomoko Ito, Ryota Inokuchi, Jun Komiyama, Naoaki Kuroda, Nanako Tamiya   +7 more
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Time trends in general practitioners’ home visits for older patients: a retrospective cross-sectional study from Switzerland

Swiss Medical Weekly, 2021
WHAT IS KNOWN ON THE SUBJECT, AND WHAT THE STUDY ADDS: The number of home visits by general practitioners (GPs) has decreased in recent years, in contrast to the increasing number of frail and older patients in western countries.
Stefan Neuner-Jehle, Sereina M. Graber, Ellen Keizer, Carola A. Huber, Eva Blozik, Thomas Rosemann, Oliver Senn   +6 more
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Delegation of GP-home visits to qualified practice assistants: assessment of economic effects in an ambulatory healthcare centre

BMC Health Services Research, 2010
Background Against the background of a decreasing number of general practitioners (GPs) in rural regions in Germany, the AGnES-concept (AGnES = GP-supporting, community-based, e-health-assisted, systemic intervention) supports the delegation of regular ...
Fleßa Steffen, Heymann Romy, Matzke Melanie, Meinke Claudia, van den Berg Neeltje, Hoffmann Wolfgang   +5 more
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