Transitional care management is effective at reducing hospital readmissions among patients with multiple chronic conditions, but evidence is lacking on the relative benefit of the home visit as a component of transitional care. The sample included non-dual Medicaid recipients with multiple chronic conditions enrolled in Community Care of North Carolina (CCNC), with a hospital discharge between ...

S ome untreated subjects show normal clinic but high home or ambulatory blood pressure (BP). This phenomenon has been called masked hypertension (MH) and may be determined by various factors. The same experience may be observed in treated hypertensive patients and has been labeled with the same term. The prevalence of MH in treated hypertension is variable, from 7% to 20%, depending on differen...

background & aim: nowadays, home health care services play significant roles in modern societies. such services allow the elderly and needy people to pass their treatment process at their own houses in a friendly environment. in this paper, weekly routing and scheduling problem of home health care personnel was investigated. methods & materials: insufficient number of expert personnel or overla...

The use of health services may vary across people with different socioeconomic statuses, and may be determined by many factors. The purposes of this study were (i) to examine the socioeconomic differences in the propensity and intensity of use for three main home-based health services, that is, home-based palliative care physician visits, nurse visits and personal support worker (PSW) hours; an...

This paper discusses the possibilities and constraints for using mobile computing in home health care by examining the work of home health care nurses in the city of Turku, located in the southwestern part of Finland. Home health care differs from other forms of health care by being ’semi-mobile’. Approximately half of a nurse’s day is spent making visits to the homes of patients and the other ...

The study had the objective to analyze the performance of the health services that implement the Directly Observed Therapy at home for tuberculosis control. This study analyzed four Tuberculosis Control Programs, referred to as A, B, C, and D, using the following indicators: Resource use; Performance quickness; Monitoring medication administration; Time spent per home visit. Data were collected...