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Incorporating Home Visits in a Primary Care Residency Clinic: The Patient and Physician Experience

Journal of Patient-Centered Research and Reviews, 2019
Purpose: Home visits, once a popular but now uncommon form of health care delivery, are on the rise. Few studies have focused on the value the experience brings to resident physicians and their patients.
Mary Caitlin St. Clair, Glenda Sundberg, Jessica J. F. Kram   +2 more
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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, Anuradha Jetty, Lars E. Peterson   +2 more
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Home Visits for Uncontrolled Asthma Among Low-Income Adults with Patient Portal Access.

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 2019
BACKGROUND Asthma disproportionately affects low-income and minority adults. In an era of electronic records and internet-based digital devices, it is unknown whether portals, for patient-provider communication, can improve asthma outcomes.
A. Apter, A. Localio, K. Morales, Xiaoyan Han, Luzmercy Perez, A. Mullen, Marisa A. Rogers, H. Klusaritz, J. Howell, Maryori Canales, T. Bryant-Stephens   +10 more
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Home visits by community health workers for pregnant mothers and newborns: coverage plateau in Malawi

Journal of Global Health, 2019
Background Home visits by community health workers (CHWs) during pregnancy and soon after delivery are recommended to improve newborn survival. However, as the roles of CHWs expand, there are concerns regarding the capacity of community health systems to
T. Guenther, H. Nsona, Regina Makuluni, Mike Chisema, Gomezgani Jenda, Emmanuel Chimbalanga, S. Sadruddin   +6 more
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'Eyes In The Home': ACOs Use Home Visits To Improve Care Management, Identify Needs, And Reduce Hospital Use.

Health Affairs, 2019
Home visits are used for a variety of services and patient populations. We used national survey data from physician practices and accountable care organizations (ACOs), paired with qualitative interviews, to learn about home visiting programs.
T. Fraze, Laura B Beidler, A. Briggs, C. Colla   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

“I had to change my attitude”: narratives of most significant change explore the experience of universal home visits to pregnant women and their spouses in Bauchi State, Nigeria

Archives of Public Health, 2021
Background Universal home visits to pregnant women and their spouses in Bauchi State, northern Nigeria, discussed local evidence about maternal and child health risks actionable by households.
Loubna Belaid, Umaira Ansari, Khalid Omer, Yagana Gidado, Muhammed Chadi Baba, Lois Ezekiel Daniel, Neil Andersson, Anne Cockcroft   +7 more
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Disparities in Utilization of Psychiatry Services Among Home Care Clients: The Tale of Two Canadian Jurisdictions

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2021
Publicly funded home care in Canada supports older adults in the community to delay institutional care, which results in complex care populations with multimorbidity that includes mental health problems. The purpose of this study is to examine prevalence
Jeffrey Poss, Lori Mitchell, Jasmine Mah, Janice Keefe, Janice Keefe   +4 more
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Optimal schedule of home care visits for a health care center [PDF]

, 2017
The provision of home health care services is becoming an important research area, mainly because in Portugal the population is ageing. Home care visits are organized taking into account the medical treatments and general support that elder/sick people ...
E Benzarti, GJ Simões, J Kennedy, JH Holland, JH Holland, KD Rest, M Kumar, MS Rasmussen, R Poli, S Bertels, S Nickel, SN Kumar, SS Rao   +12 more
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Early postnatal home visits: a qualitative study of barriers and facilitators to achieving high coverage. [PDF]

, 2018
BACKGROUND: Timely interventions in the postnatal period are important for reducing newborn mortality, and early home visits to provide postnatal care are recommended.
Amare, Yared, Berhanu, Della, Hill, Zelee, Scheelbeek, Pauline, Schellenberg, Joanna   +4 more
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An exploratory study of discharge planning home visits within an Irish context – investigating nationwide practice and nationwide perspectives [PDF]

Irish Journal of Occupational Therapy, 2019
Purpose – Discharge planning home visits (DPHVs) are a routine part of occupational therapy clinical practice. However, there is a dearth of evidence to support or refute their efficacy and limited policies or standards to guide clinical practice.
Aisling Jane Davis, Patricia Mc Clure
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