What works? Maine's statewide uniform assessment and home care planning system tells all.

Aging, Pensions and Long-term Care: What, Why, Who, How?; Comment on “Financing Long-term Care: Lessons From Japan”

Japan has been aging faster than other industrialized nations, and its experience offers useful lessons to others. Japan has been willing to expand its welfare state with a long-term care (LTC) insurance to finance home care and nursing home care for frail elderly. As Ikegami shows, it created new facilities and expanded specialized staffing for home care, developed a c...

Evidence-based family planning: finding answers to clinical questions.

Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care 2003: 29(2) Clinical scenario A busy family planning clinic (FPC) finally draws to a close, during which you demonstrated the insertion of several intrauterine devices (IUDs) to a general practitioner (GP) registrar and also supervised him inserting an IUD for the first time. Over coffee at the end of the session he tells you that his GP t...

The Second Annual Statewide Pollution Prevention Conference - P2: What the Past Tells Us About the Future

Clinical networks influencing policy and practice: the establishment of advanced practice pharmacist roles for specialist palliative care services in South Australia.

OBJECTIVES To operationalise the concept of 'advanced practice roles' in pharmacy within the new integrated regionalised palliative care service model outlined in the Palliative Care Services Plan 2009-2016, SA Health. METHODS A working group was established under the auspices of the Palliative Care Clinical Network to progress the development of advanced practice pharmacist roles for regiona...

How to achieve the desired outcomes of advance care planning in nursing homes: a theory of change

BACKGROUND Advance care planning (ACP) has been identified as particularly relevant for nursing home residents, but it remains unclear how or under what circumstances ACP works and can best be implemented in such settings. We aimed to develop a theory that outlines the hypothetical causal pathway of ACP in nursing homes, i.e. what changes are expected, by means of which processes and under what...