BACKGROUND Stroke often causes functional decline in patients. Therefore, after the acute phase, many patients require post-acute care (PAC) to maximize their functional progress, reduce disability, and make it possible for them to return to their home and community. PAC can be provided in different settings. Taiwan's National Health Insurance (NHI) proposed a PAC pilot program, effective since...

OBJECTIVE To explore whether a home-based intermediate care program in a large Canadian city lowers the cost of care and to look at whether such home-based programs could be a solution to the increasing demands on Canadian hospitals. DESIGN Single-arm study with historical controls. SETTING Department of Family Medicine at the Ottawa Hospital (Civic campus) in Ontario. PARTICIPANTS Patien...

1. National Marine Environmental Forecasting Center, Beijing 100081, China 4 2. State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China 5 3. Key Laboratory of Research on Marine Hazards Forecasting, National Marine Environmental Forecasting 6 Center , Beijing 100081, China 7 8 Abstract: The phenomenon of low dissolved oxygen (known as hypoxia) in coastal oc...

PURPOSE A quasi-experimental study was performed to investigate the effects of a home visiting discharge education program on the maternal self-esteem, attachment, postpartum depression and family function in 35 mothers of neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) infants. METHODS Twenty-three mothers in the intervention group received the home visiting discharge education while 12 mothers in the c...

OBJECTIVE An important distinction in models of housing for the homeless is whether programs that require abstinence prior to program admission produce better outcomes than unrestricted programs. Data from a large transitional housing program were used to compare client characteristics of and outcomes from programs requiring abstinence at admission and programs not requiring abstinence. METHO...

The purpose of this observational study is to evaluate the effectiveness of structured home visits by non-licensed healthcare personnel (NLHP) on the patient’s adherence to a medication plan, dietary restrictions, and knowledge about when to seek care. This descriptive, qualitative study evaluates the Grand-Aide ® program that aids in the management of heart failure patients across the continuu...

background hands burn was associated with significant functional disorders that severely affected patient’s quality of life. the aim of this study was to examine the effect of educational program based on exercise therapy on burned hand function. methods this experimental research was conducted in a period of ten months in 2010-2011 in mottahari hospital in tehran in iran. the sample included 6...

We have been working to develop a statewide injury surveillance system using not only hospital-based trauma registries but also other sources of data (including ambulance run reports, hospital discharge abstracts, and death certificates). For this purpose, a commercially available probabilistic matching program was compared to the deterministic program described previously. Using the same data ...

BACKGROUND One of the most typical and chronic problem in Korean mental health system is the prolonged length of hospital stay. In contrast to there are many components which leads to long length of stay of psychiatric patients in Korean situation such as low and fixed medical fee for psychiatric inpatient treatment, shortage of community resources, lack of care-givers' awareness and so on, the...