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Postnatal home visits by health extension workers in rural areas of Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study design

open access: yesBMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2020
Background In low-income countries like Ethiopia, where families have poor access to or do not utilize the services of formal health care systems, community health workers provide postnatal care services through home visits.
Yemane Berhane Tesfau   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Episodic medical home interventions in severe bedridden Chronic Respiratory Failure patients: a 4 year retrospective study

open access: yesMonaldi 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
doaj   +1 more source

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)

open access: yesBMC 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   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Home visits: a reflection on family contact in a specialist forensic intellectual disability service [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Purpose – There is little published literature about the number of home visits provided to patients within forensic intellectual disability units, and there is no published data on variables that affect home visits.
Alexander, Regi   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Care opportunities for premature infants: home visits and telephone support*

open access: yesRevista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem, 2020
Objective: to analyze opportunities for orientations to promote the care of premature infants during home visits and telephone support. Method: a qualitative study from the perspective of philosophical hermeneutics conducted with 18 mothers of premature ...
Rosane Meire Munhak da Silva   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Delegating home visits in general practice: a realist review on the impact on GP workload and patient care

open access: yesThe British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners, 2020
Background UK general practice is being shaped by new ways of working. Traditional GP tasks are being delegated to other staff with the intention of reducing GPs’ workload and hospital admissions, and improving patients’ access to care.
Ruth Abrams   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Physiotherapy in Indian communities: a brief review [PDF]

open access: yesHealth 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
doaj   +1 more source

Time trends in general practitioners’ home visits for older patients: a retrospective cross-sectional study from Switzerland

open access: yesSwiss 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   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Home Visits for Children With Asthma Reduce Medicaid Costs

open access: yesPreventing Chronic Disease, 2020
We conducted a multicomponent, low-cost, home intervention for children with uncontrolled asthma, the Reducing Ethnic/Racial Asthma Disparities in Youth (READY) study, to evaluate its effect on health outcomes and its return on investment.
Erica T. Marshall   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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

open access: yesBMC 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   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

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