Day Care
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010

The big picture: how social work can effectively utilize photographs.

29 Sep 2009 Social work has struggled with image problems and misperceptions of the profession and the types of services it provides. Photography is a medium that has been used effectively by other professions to change attitudes and perceptions. The present ... Read more...

Determinants of adult day center attendance among older adults with functional limitations.

29 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: To examine factors related to regularity of adult day center (ADC) attendance among seniors with functional limitations. METHODS: Using data collected as part of a larger study, we identified the proportion of scheduled days attended ... Read more...

Service and support needs of Australian carers supporting a family member with disability at home.

30 Aug 2009 BACKGROUND: As part of an international, multicentre project, the service and support needs of Australian family carers were investigated. METHOD: A sample of 1,390, 448 family carers completed a self-report survey, including an adaptation of the ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Day Care'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• The big picture: how social work can effectively utilize photographs. 29 Sep 2009
• California budget cuts fray the long-term care safety net. 29 Sep 2009
• Determinants of adult day center attendance among older adults with functional limitations. 29 Sep 2009
• Assessing the onset of pre-eclampsia in the hospital day unit: summary of the pre-eclampsia guideline (PRECOG II). 7 Sep 2009
• [Empathy, a just milieu between clinical and daily ethics] 30 Aug 2009
• [Occupational therapy, a place of encounters and discovery] 30 Aug 2009
• [Interior lives, an encounter between patient and nurse] 30 Aug 2009
• [The day clinic, from experience to tentative theorization] 30 Aug 2009
• [The psychiatric day clinic, a nostalgic affair?] 30 Aug 2009
• Service and support needs of Australian carers supporting a family member with disability at home. 30 Aug 2009
• Has payment by results affected the way that English hospitals provide care? Difference-in-differences analysis. 25 Aug 2009
• Quality of life associated with adult day centers. 11 Aug 2009
• Quicker cancer care: reshaping patient pathways. 29 Jun 2009
• The need for a "mental health home". 29 Jun 2009
• [Workshop on touch-massage in a geriatric day hospital] 29 Jun 2009
• Partial hospitalization versus day treatment. 30 May 2009
• Recovery as discovery. 23 May 2009
• Immune-mediated and chronic inflammatory disease in people with sarcoidosis: disease associations in a large UK database. 29 Apr 2009
• A 5-day dialectical behavior therapy partial hospital program for women with borderline personality disorder: predictors of outcome from a 3-month follow-up study. 29 Apr 2009
• [Quality of life project and care project in day care admission for Alzheimer's or similar diseases] 29 Apr 2009

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Technical information about 'Day Care'

Definition: Institutional health care of patients during the day. The patients return home at night.

Descriptor UI: D003631

Alternative terms: Day Care; Care, Day; Hospitalization, Partial; Hospitalizations, Partial; Partial Hospitalization; Partial Hospitalizations;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics; psychology;

Tree Number: E02.760.246; N02.421.585.246;

History Note: 68

Technical Notes: care to patients hospitalized only during day-time hours; for children in day-care schools use CHILD DAY CARE CENTERS or SCHOOLS, NURSERY