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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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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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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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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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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 +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. +29 more
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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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