Home Care Services - Organization & administration
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Occupational therapy home programs for cerebral palsy: double-blind, randomized, controlled trial.

19 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: The goal was to assess the effectiveness of an occupational therapy home program (OTHP), compared with no OTHP, with respect to function and parent satisfaction with child function, participation, goal attainment, and quality of upper ... Read more...

[An experience of psychological support at home for aged and dependent people and their families. Assesment of the PsyAdom programme]

30 Aug 2009 The PsyAdom project has been initiated by the Clinical Psychologist Working in Gerontology Association. It consists in setting up an at home psychological follow-up for aged dependent subjects and their caregivers. Families are often isolated, and ... Read more...

Associations between home death and GP involvement in palliative cancer care.

30 Aug 2009 BACKGROUND: Most cancer patients die at institutions despite their wish for home death. GP-related factors may be crucial in attaining home death. AIM: To describe cancer patients in palliative care at home and examine associations between home ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Home Care Services - Organization & administration'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Occupational therapy home programs for cerebral palsy: double-blind, randomized, controlled trial. 19 Sep 2009
• [An experience of psychological support at home for aged and dependent people and their families. Assesment of the PsyAdom programme] 30 Aug 2009
• Associations between home death and GP involvement in palliative cancer care. 30 Aug 2009
• Health care provider evaluation of a substitutive model of hospital at home. 30 Aug 2009
• Health reality show: regular celebrities, high stakes, new game: a model for managing complex primary health care. 19 Aug 2009
• Palliative respite services using nursing staff reduces hospitalization of patients and improves acceptance among carers. 30 Jul 2009
• Alternate level of care: Ontario addresses the long waits. 30 Jul 2009
• Looking upstream: factors shaping the demand for postacute joint replacement rehabilitation. 30 Jul 2009
• Commentary on the comparative effectiveness of alternative settings for joint replacement rehabilitation. 30 Jul 2009
• "A hospital is no place to be sick" Samuel Goldwyn (1882-1974). 30 Jul 2009
• Home management of malaria. 23 Jul 2009
• Home-based, peer-led chronic illness self-management training: findings from a 1-year randomized controlled trial. 29 Jun 2009
• Quality-of-life assessment in a palliative care setting in Germany: an outcome evaluation. 29 Jun 2009
• Introducing the PACE concept: managed care for the frail older adult. 29 Jun 2009
• Developing an electronic nursing record system for clinical care and nursing effectiveness research in a korean home healthcare setting. 29 Jun 2009
• [Social life auxiliary in an aide association and home care services. Interview by Gilles Guillard] 29 Jun 2009
• [Dependence and vulnerability in walking ability at home] 29 Jun 2009
• ASCP pushes for bill promoting coordination of care for elders at home. 29 Jun 2009
• Alternatives to admission for children and adolescents: providing intensive mental healthcare services at home and in communities: what works? 29 Jun 2009
• Home administration of intravenous methylprednisolone for multiple sclerosis relapses: the experience of French multiple sclerosis networks. 23 Jun 2009

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Technical information about 'Home Care Services'

Definition: Community health and NURSING SERVICES providing coordinated multiple services to the patient at the patient's homes. These home-care services are provided by a visiting nurse, home health agencies, HOSPITALS, or organized community groups using professional staff for care delivery. It differs from HOME NURSING which is provided by non-professionals.

Descriptor UI: D006699

Alternative terms: Home Care Services; Home Care Service; Service, Home Care; Domiciliary Care; Care, Domiciliary; Services, Home Care; Care Services, Home; Home Care; Care, Home;

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

Tree Number: N02.421.143.524; N02.421.539.089;

Online Note: use HOME CARE SERVICES to search HOME CARE SERVICE 1966

History Note: 67; was HOME CARE SERVICE 1966

Technical Notes: IM; coord with specific home care (IM); DF: HOME CARE SERV