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Showing 1 to 20 of 90 for “"home health"”.
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Home Health Agencies & Home Health Care: An Examination of Financial Performance, Quality, and Micro-Costing
Home health represents a key healthcare delivery provider for millions of Americans. Amongst those receiving home health care, approximately 3 million are Medicare recipients. Home health agencies (HHAs) are a key provider as there are roughly 11,500 HHAs providing home health services ranging from …
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Secure telemedicine system for home health care
… a low-cost telemedicine system that provides home based patient care by linking patients with skilled nurses at the home care agency. The system employs compact vital signs sensors and a two-way real-time video conference over telephone lines. It stores the patient's medical records, still …
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In-home health care and hospitalization status
… was to describe the relationship between in-home health care services for elderly patients who were recently discharged from inpatient care and re-hospitalization rates. The design was descriptive and the hypothesis was that the provision of in-home health care services would mitigate a …
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An examination of the presence of social work intervention with home health care recipients of related home health care outcomes
… the dramatic changes that have occurred in the home health care arena as a result of managed care policies. Social work has been part of home health care since its inception, but the current cost constrained market threatens the viability of social work in providing servies to elderly, ill, …
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Home health care for persons with cognitive impairment
… raise serious concerns. The capacity of the home health care service industry to adequately meet the needs of people living with cognitive impairment is highly questionable. This study adapts the Anderson-Newman Health Services Utilization Model and uses newly available health services survey …
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Cross-Training Home Health Clinicians in Advanced Illness Management
<p>This project focused on the cross training of home health clinicians in Advanced Illness Management (AIM), in order to improve patient care. This project allows patients to receive more timely and patient centered care, by reducing delays caused by having separate clinicians for home health and …
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Issues In Patient Information Transmission: Standardizing Home Health Admission
… to improve the admissions process to this home health agency. Intake staff is responsible for receiving accurate information from the referral sources, confirming qualifications to receive services, and initiating education about services to the patient. While the population served has a …
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OCCUPATIONAL STRESS AND HEALTH AMONG HOME HEALTH CARE WORKERS
<p>Home health care workers fill an essential role in the daily lives of elderly persons. However, the work is physically and emotionally exhausting. This mixed-methods study explicates sources of stress found in agency-based caregiving in the post-industrial economy. Agencies operate under a …
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Family Caregiver Quality of Life : Home health care nursing
인구의 노령화와 만성질환의 증가, 각종 사고로 인한 회복 불가능한 손상 등으로 인한 기능 장애 상태로 장기간 생활해야하는 대상자는 증가하면서 현재의 의료체계 내에서는 효율적인 의료자원 이용을 통한 병원 경영 정상화와 환자 측의 의료비 부담 감소를 위해 조기퇴원 추세로서 급성기 혹은 적극적인 치료기가 끝나면 퇴원을 하여 가정에서 추후 의료관리가 계속되어져야 하기 때문에 가정간호 이용이 증가하고 있으며, 가정에서 환자를 장기간 돌보아야 하는 가족돌봄자들의 부담이 증가하면서 삶의 질이 떨어지리라 여긴다. 이에 본 연구는 가정간호대상자 …
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Employing multi-modal sensors for personalised smart home health monitoring.
Smart home systems are employed worldwide for a variety of automated monitoring tasks. FITsense is a system that performs personalised smart home health monitoring using sensor data. In this thesis, we expand upon this system by identifying the limits of health monitoring using simple IoT sensors, …
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Home, health and participation for community living people with disability
… to the understanding of aspects related to home, health and participation for community living people with disability and identify different groups with different needs for interventions. Study I used focus groups to explore aspects of importance for participation. Twenty-nine people with …
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Home Health Care Routing and Scheduling Problem with Genetic Algorithms
The Home Health Care Routing and Scheduling Problem (HHCRSP) is an NP-hard optimization problem that involves planning the routes and schedules of caregivers who provide in-home medical services. Despite the extensive use of metaheuristics in related routing problems, the HHCRSP has received …
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Three Papers On Home Health Care Services In The United States
… need both short and long-term care services. Home-based care services are often preferred over facilities because of comfort, lower costs, and better health outcomes. Yet, home health care is beset with a number of challenges, including labor shortages and low-paid aides who experience high …
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Coping responses among aged home health care clients : a qualitative study
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