Needs for physician housecalls-views from health and social service providers

Home Health Care Services Quarterly

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 17-29

  Muramatsu, Naoko ^a   Cornwell, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b Division of CENTRA   (United States)

Author keywords

Elderly; Home health care; Homebound; Needs assessment; Physician housecalls

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HOME CARE; HOMEBOUND PATIENT; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHYSICIAN; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; PUBLIC RELATIONS; SOCIAL WORK; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CHICAGO; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; FOCUS GROUPS; HOME CARE AGENCIES; HOMEBOUND PERSONS; HOUSE CALLS; HUMANS; INTERINSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS; INTERVIEWS; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PHYSICIANS; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; SOCIAL WORK;

EID: 0042203551     PISSN: 01621424     EISSN: 15450856     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J027v22n02_02     Document Type: Article

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