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Home visits - central to primary care, tradition or an obligation? A qualitative study

BMC Family Practice, 2011
Background Home visits are claimed to be a central element of primary care. However, the frequency with which home visits are made is declining both internationally and in Germany despite the increase in the number of chronically ill elderly patients ...
Müller Christiane A, Buck Marlene, Kruschinski Carsten, Theile Gudrun, Hummers-Pradier Eva   +4 more
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Home healthcare services in Taiwan: a nationwide study among the older population

BMC Health Services Research, 2010
Background Home healthcare services are important in aging societies worldwide. The present nationwide study of health insurance data examined the utilization and delivery patterns, including diagnostic indications, for home healthcare services used by ...
Lai Hsiu-Yun, Chang Hsiao-Ting, Hwang I-Hsuan, Ho Mei-Man, Hwang Shinn-Jang   +4 more
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Virtual home visits during COVID-19 pandemic: mothers’ and home visitors’ perspectives

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
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Orthoptic Home Visits for Stroke Survivors: Results from a UK Professional Practice Survey

British and Irish Orthoptic Journal, 2019
Aim: Orthoptists are perhaps the only allied health profession without a standard home visits service in the UK, although it could arguably be of benefit to many orthoptic patients.
Kerry Hanna, Fiona Rowe
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Mediation effects of attitudes on the generational and gender influence on Swiss General Practitioners’ home visits: a cross-sectional study

Swiss Medical Weekly
BACKGROUND: In family medicine, home visits are a tangible manifestation of patient-centred care, allowing physicians to comprehensively understand patients’ circumstances and cater to their medical and psychosocial needs.
Serena Petrocchi, Qianfeng Lu, Luca Gabutti, Sandro Bonetti, Mjriam Rodella Sapia, Franco Denti, Mario Bianchetti, Peter Schulz   +7 more
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Reaching mothers and babies with early postnatal home visits: the implementation realities of achieving high coverage in large-scale programs. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
BACKGROUND: Nearly half of births in low-income countries occur without a skilled attendant, and even fewer mothers and babies have postnatal contact with providers who can deliver preventive or curative services that save lives. Community-based maternal
Deborah Sitrin, Tanya Guenther, John Murray, Nanlesta Pilgrim, Sayed Rubayet, Reuben Ligowe, Bhim Pun, Honey Malla, Allisyn Moran   +8 more
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Motivation to take part in integrated care - an assessment of follow-up home visits to elderly persons

International Journal of Integrated Care, 2011
Objectives: The aim of follow-up visits by the general practitioner and district nurse (within a week after discharge from hospital) is to reduce hospital readmissions and improve the overall wellbeing of the patient.
Ulf Hjelmar, Carsten Hendriksen, Kirsten Hansen   +2 more
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DIFFICULTIES AND FACILITATING ASPECTS IN THE UNDERTAKING OF HOME VISITS IN A PSYCHO-SOCIAL CARE CENTER

Cogitare Enfermagem, 2014
This study aims to analyze the difficulties and facilitating aspects faced by professionals of a Psychosocial Care Center in the south of Brazil in the undertaking of home visits.
Marivana Fernandes, Maria de Lourdes Custódio Duarte, Joice Moreira Schmalfuss   +2 more
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Changing patterns of home visiting in general practice: an analysis of electronic medical records

BMC Family Practice, 2006
Background In most European countries and North America the number of home visits carried out by GPs has been decreasing sharply. This has been influenced by non-medical factors such as mobility and pressures on time.
Bongers Frans JM, Cardol Mieke, van den Berg Michael J, de Bakker Dinny H   +3 more
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Impact of Community Health Nursing Students Home Visits on Outcomes of Primary Health Care Services [PDF]

Port Said Scientific Journal of Nursing
Background: Patient-centered treatment, early intervention, and prevention. Nursing students participating in community projects like house visits has emerged as a useful tactic in response to the rising need for services that are equitable and easily ...
Ahmed Abdelghafar Emara, abeer Abd-El Azeem, hoda Mahmoud   +2 more
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