Community coordination of dental care needs in a home medical care support ward and at home

Unmet dental care needs among children with special health care needs: implications for the medical home.

BACKGROUND Little is known about the characteristics of children with special health care needs (CSHCN) who have unmet dental care needs. OBJECTIVE We sought to describe the magnitude of unmet needs for dental care among CSHCN and to characterize those with unmet dental care needs. DESIGN, SETTING, AND SUBJECTS We used data from the National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs...

Support needs and placement matching in out-of-home-care

Care coordination in the medical home: integrating health and related systems of care for children with special health care needs.

Care coordination is a process that facilitates the linkage of children and their families with appropriate services and resources in a coordinated effort to achieve good health. Care coordination for children with special health care needs often is complicated because there is no single point of entry into the multiple systems of care, and complex criteria frequently determine the availability...

The effect of postpartum care at home on maternal received care and satisfaction

Background: One of the most important indicators of quality of services and monitoring health services is evaluation and assessment of patient satisfaction of services that comes from sociology research. Aim: To identify the effect of providing post partum care at home on maternal received care and satisfaction. Method: This clinical trial was carried out on 200 mothers who referred to Akbar Ab...

[Palliative and support care at home in primary care].

OBJECTIVES To estimate the proportion of people requiring palliative and support care at home in primary care and to describe their characteristics. METHODS A descriptive study was carried out by five Spanish sentinel networks between October 2007 and March 2008 in 282,216 people attended by 218 general practitioners and nurses. Patients receiving comprehensive, active and continued care at h...