Tag: Home Healthcare
Home-Based Cardiac Rehab May Be Option for Some Heart Patients
Short-term clinical outcomes improved similarly for home-based, center-based cardiac rehabilitation
Home Health Clinicians Frequently Lack Access to Hospital Records
Additionally, patients often not prepared with realistic expectations to receive home health care
Infection Control Compliance Not Tied to Knowledge
Rather, home health care nurses' beliefs and perceptions seem to have most impact on compliance
ASN: Home Dialysis Associated With Improved Survival
Survival at 1 year was 91.7 percent with home dialysis versus 81.4 percent with in-center dialysis
Advance Care Planning Doesn’t Aid Quality of Life
But, participation does increase advance directives, surrogate decision-makers
Docs Engage Little to Coordinate Medicare Home Health Care
Findings based on use of form CMS-485 for plan certification between home health care agencies
Home Visit Program Can Help Prevent Toddler Obesity
Findings based on intervention in low-socioeconomic-status communities
Report Addresses Patient Refusal of Home Health Care Services
Importance of home health care services increasing, partly due to shorter hospital stays, complex needs
Nurse Practitioners Could Help Meet Need for Elderly Home Care
Restrictions in some U.S. states are an obstacle, researcher says
2013 Saw 1.7 Million Home Visits From Primary Care Doctors
9 to 10 percent of primary care providers performed 44 percent of these visits in 2013
