Effects of home visits by home nurses to elderly people with health problems: Design of a randomised clinical trial in the Netherlands [ISRCTN92017183]

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Nicolaides Bouman, Ans ^a   Van Rossum, Erik ^a   Kempen, Gertrudis I J M ^a   Knipschild, Paul ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH STATUS; HOME; HOME CARE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MORTALITY; NETHERLANDS; NURSE; POSTAL MAIL; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZATION; SAMPLE SIZE; SELF REPORT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HOSPITALIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITALIZATION; HOUSE CALLS; HUMANS; MALE; MORTALITY; NETHERLANDS; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; QUESTIONNAIRES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 14544272404     PISSN: 14726963     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-4-35     Document Type: Article

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