Homebound Persons
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1. Disabled persons: conditions of coexistence and possibility of home care / Pessoas com deficiências: condições de convivência e possibilidade de atenção domiciliar
INTRODUCTION: For the person with physical disabilities, the functional recovery does not always lead to the acquisition of skills that would provide them means to exercise their citizenship. This study aims to understand how physical disability changes the relations among people and tries to present home care as a type of health care that can address the ne
Publicado em: 2009
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2. Perception of subjective gains and losses among caregivers of patients attended by a home care program / "Percepção de perdas e ganhos subjetivos entre cuidadores de pacientes atendidos em um programa de assistência domiciliar"
The objective of this research was to investigate the perception of informal caregivers of patients attended by a home care program, about the care and its impact, studying positive and negative aspects associated with this role and the influence of home care and its development. Fifty caregivers of patients registered at NADI Hospital das Clínicas of FMUSP
Publicado em: 2004
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3. An operational definition of the homebound.
Homebound status is a critical eligibility criterion for Medicare reimbursement of some home care services, yet little discussion has been undertaken to establish a valid definition of it. We propose an operational definition of homebound status, and we measure its validity for community-dwelling elderly in the Massachusetts Health Care Panel Study (MHCPS).
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4. Clinic-based primary care of frail older patients in California.
We surveyed medical directors of primary care clinics in California to learn how those clinics cared for their frail older patients. Of 143 questionnaires sent, 127 (89%) were returned. A median of 30% of all patient encounters were with persons aged 65 or older, and a median of 20% of older patients were considered frail. A total of 20% of the clinics routi
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5. Characterizing the use of health care services delivered via computer networks.
OBJECTIVE: Evaluators must develop methods to characterize the use of the rapidly proliferating electronic networks that link patients with health services. In this article the 4-S framework is proposed for characterizing the use of health services delivered via computer networks. The utility of the 4-S framework is illustrated using data derived from a comp