House Calls Are Reaching the Tipping Point — Now We Need the Workforce [PDF]
Journal of Patient-Centered Research and Reviews, 2019 Home-based primary care (HBPC) improves the lives of high-cost, frail, homebound patients and their caregivers while reducing costs by keeping patients at home and reducing the use of hospitals and nursing homes.
Thomas Cornwell
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Twenty-first century house calls: a survey of ambulatory care providers to inform organisational telehealth strategy [PDF]
BMJ Health & Care Informatics, 2022 Objectives While patient interest in telehealth increases, clinicians’ perspectives may influence longer-term adoption. We sought to identify facilitators and barriers to continued clinician incorporation of telehealth into practice.Methods A cross ...
Bradley H Crotty +8 more
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Barriers to Making House Calls by Primary Care Physicians and Solutions: A Literature Review [PDF]
Malaysian Family Physician, 2020 Background: The number of house calls made by physicians has been declining over the years, while the number of people requiring house calls, especially the elderly, is growing.
Jing Yan Seah
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South African Family Practice, 2017 I have always enjoyed doing house calls and in some cases consider it part of the general practice care of patients. I get to see the context that the patient lives in as well as often meet significant others whom I would not normally meet.
Chris Ellis
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Characteristics of house calls in Brazil: analysis of PMAQ-AB external evaluation cycles [PDF]
Revista Brasileira de EpidemiologiaObjective: To analyze characteristics of the home visit (HV) in Brazil, 2012 and 2017. Methods: Ecological study, with panel data whose units of analysis were the Primary Health Care teams in Brazil, participants of the 1st and 3rd cycles of the ...
Luan Henrique Honório Rocha +4 more
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Patient house calls in Attica and Thessaloniki, Greece (2005-2015): a model for out-of-hospital multispecialty emergency medicine [PDF]
BMC Health Services Research, 2018 Background The SOS-doctors are a network of physicians who perform house-call visits in the areas of Attica and Thessaloniki, Greece. Methods Patients requesting medical services by the SOS doctors during the period 1/1/2005 – 31/12/2015 were eligible ...
George Theocharis +5 more
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Mismatch between registration possibilities and patients’ local health needs, a simulated patient survey in the Paris metropolitan area [PDF]
Human Resources for HealthObjectives We studied the association between GPs’ characteristics and the places they practise, in terms of the supply and demand for primary care and of the registration of new patients for ongoing care at the office or for house calls. Study design An
Raphaëlle Delpech +4 more
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Home visits in rural general practice: what does the future hold?
Rural and Remote Health, 2022 Introduction: Declining house-call rates have been documented worldwide; however, up-to-date data on current rates are lacking, particularly in rural settings.
Rachel Murphy +3 more
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Extended prenatal and postnatal home visits in a vulnerable area in Sweden—a pilot study
Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care, 2023 Objective Despite close to all-embracing access to child healthcare, health divides exist among children in Sweden. Home visits to families with new-born babies are a cost-effective way to identify and strengthen vulnerable families.
Kuo Zhe Chin +3 more
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