Home Care Services - Research News and Information

Saturday, January 10, 2009

Medicare home health patients' transitions through acute and post-acute care settings.

30 Oct 2008 OBJECTIVES: To describe Medicare beneficiaries' transitions through home health care within the context of other acute and post-acute services, and to examine agreement between administrative claims and Outcome and Assessment Information Set ... Read more...

Medicaid program; self-directed personal assistance services program State Plan option (cash and counseling). Final rule.

Oct 2008 This final rule provides guidance to States that want to administer self-directed personal assistance services through their State Plans, as authorized by the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005. The State plan option allows beneficiaries, through an ... Read more...

Improved outcomes with home-based administration of palivizumab: results from the 2000-2004 Palivizumab Outcomes Registry.

29 Sep 2008 BACKGROUND: Palivizumab Outcomes Registry data collected during 4 years were examined to assess compliance and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) hospitalization rates in high-risk children receiving palivizumab prophylaxis at home compared with an ... Read more...

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Latest indexed articles for 'Home Care Services'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Medicare home health patients' transitions through acute and post-acute care settings. 30 Oct 2008
• Medicaid program; self-directed personal assistance services program State Plan option (cash and counseling). Final rule. Oct 2008
• Improved outcomes with home-based administration of palivizumab: results from the 2000-2004 Palivizumab Outcomes Registry. 29 Sep 2008
• A review of the evidence for the medical home for children with special health care needs. 29 Sep 2008
• Updating long-term care's health IT course. New road map outlines goals for the next three years. 29 Sep 2008
• Effectiveness of a nurse-led case management home care model in Primary Health Care. A quasi-experimental, controlled, multi-centre study. 21 Sep 2008
• The meaning of quality of life: narrations by patients with incurable cancer in palliative home care. 30 Aug 2008
• Coping with troublesome clients in home care. 30 Aug 2008
• Choice-making among Medicaid HCBS and ICF/MR recipients in six states. 30 Aug 2008
• 'Skilled nursing' is in the hands. 30 Aug 2008
• Empowering NPs. 30 Aug 2008
• What prevents NPs from approving home health care? 30 Aug 2008
• No room at the inn. 30 Aug 2008
• A telerehabilitation model for victims of polytrauma. 30 Aug 2008
• Home narrowband UV-B phototherapy in combination with low-dose acitretin in patients with moderate to severe psoriasis. 30 Aug 2008
• Community-based service use by elders with dementia and their caregivers: a latent class analysis. 30 Aug 2008
• Nursing and social work leadership. 30 Aug 2008
• Historical overview. 30 Aug 2008
• VA project helps families provide care. 30 Aug 2008
• Developing competence for nurses and social workers. 30 Aug 2008

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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