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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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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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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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Community Characteristics and Readmissions: Hospitals in Jeopardy
Online Journal of Rural Nursing and Health Care, 2021 Objective: The purpose was to identify community characteristics that contribute to reductions in readmission rates and reimbursement penalties for hospital systems in upstate New York. Methods: Hospitals in upstate NY were selected (N = 94). Using
Michele L. Summers, Serdar Atav
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European Journal of Midwifery, 2023 Introduction Early discharge holds several advantages and seems safe after planned cesarean section among low-risk women. However, breastfeeding rates are lower after cesarean section.
Anne R. Kruse +8 more
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Iranian Journal of Nursing and Midwifery Research, 2021 Background: Dietary and medication regimen adherence in patients with history of Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) is very important in preventing readmission and reducing the complications of the disease.
Maryam Montazami +2 more
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