Supported home-care schemes: the key to increasing outpatient care?

Supported home-care schemes: the key to increasing outpatient care?

We agree with CHOUDHURY et al. [1] that more patients (18–20%) could be managed at home by family practitioners with the application of current guidelines, but we would like to comment that a greater number of patients (approximately 60%) could be managed at home with additional supported home-based care. As described by the authors, factors other than disease severity often prompt hospital adm...

The regional approach to home care for life-supported persons.

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...

home health care

extract today home health care is implementing in many countries. in iran, because of increasing population growth and hospital investments, home health care is not avoidable. home health care not only causes decreasing length of hospitalization and rapid offloading of hospital's beds for the use of other patients, but also presenting direct health services in home based on individual need...

Theory of Infants' Transition Management from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit to Home: a Qualitative Study

Background: Infant's transition is a challenge for parents and the health system that requires ongoing assessment and management to improve each newborn`s growth and development. The purpose of this study was to explore the management of infant` transition from neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) to home.Materials and Methods: We used a grounded theory study to explore and describe the manageme...