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Virtual home visits during COVID-19 pandemic: mothers’ and home visitors’ perspectives [PDF]

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2023
Background The experiences of mothers enrolled in Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) program with virtual home visiting (VHV) during the pandemic remain mostly unknown.
Abdullah Al-Taiar, Michele A. Kekeh, Stephanie Ewers, Amy L. Prusinski, Kimberly J. Alombro, Nancy Welch   +5 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Effect of the Newhints home-visits intervention on neonatal mortality rate and care practices in Ghana: a cluster randomised controlled trial.

Lancet, The, 2013
BACKGROUND: In 2009, on the basis of promising evidence from trials in south Asia, WHO and UNICEF issued a joint statement about home visits as a strategy to improve newborn survival.
Amenga-Etego, Seeba, Danso, Samuel, Gyan, Thomas, Hill, Zelee, Kirkwood, Betty R, Manu, Alexander, Owusu-Agyei, Seth, Soremekun, Seyi, Tawiah-Agyemang, Charlotte, ten Asbroek, Augustinus HA, Weobong, Benedict   +10 more
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Promoting gender equity in a home visits programme: a qualitative study in Northern Nigeria [PDF]

BMC Women's Health
Background Gender inequities remain critical determinants influencing maternal health. Harmful gender norms and gender-based violence adversely affect maternal health.
Loubna Belaid, Hadiza Mudi, Khalid Omer, Yagana Gidado, Umaira Ansari, Muhammad Rilwanu, Neil Andersson, Anne Cockcroft   +7 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Remote vs In-home Physician Visits for Hospital-Level Care at Home

JAMA Network Open, 2022
Key Points Question When a patient receives acute hospital-level care at home (home hospital), is the use of remote physician visits noninferior to in-home physician visits in terms of safety and patient experience?
D. Levine, Mary Paz, Kimberly Burke, Ryan A. Beaumont, Robert B Boxer, Charles Morris, K. Britton, E. J. Orav, J. Schnipper   +8 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Swiss family physicians and home visits: a 10-year retrospective analysis and typology based on billing data

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, Patrick Taffé, Stephane David, Nicolas Senn, Yolanda Mueller   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Group Sessions or Home Visits for Early Childhood Development in India: A Cluster RCT

Pediatrics, 2020
We compare the effectiveness of an early childhood development intervention delivered through individual home visits or mother–child group sessions in a cluster randomized control trial.
S. Grantham‐McGregor, Akanksha Adya, O. Attanasio, B. Augsburg, Jere R. Behrman, Bet Caeyers, Monimalika Day, Pamela Jervis, R. Kochar, Prerna Makkar, C. Meghir, Angus Phimister, Marta Rubio-Codina, K. Vats   +13 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

How time consuming are general practitioners’ home visits? Insights from a cross-sectional study in Switzerland

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, Christoph Merlo, Stefan Essig   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The outcomes of nurse practitioner (NP)-Provided home visits: A systematic review

Geriatric Nursing, 2020
Background With the shortage of primary care providers to provide home-based care to the growing number of homebound older adults in the U.S. Nurse Practitioners (NPs) are increasingly utilized to meet the growing demand for home-based care and are now ...
Z. Osakwe, Sainfer Aliyu, Olukayode A. Sosina, Lusine Poghosyan   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

Effectiveness of pharmacist home visits for individuals at risk of medication-related problems: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials

BMC Health Services Research, 2020
Background Medication mismanagement is a major cause of both hospital admission and nursing home placement of frail older adults. Medication reviews by community pharmacists aim to maximise therapeutic benefit but also minimise harm.
R. Abbott, D. Moore, Morwenna Rogers, A. Bethel, K. Stein, J. Coon   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source