The effect of frontloading visits on patient outcomes

Home Healthcare Nurse

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 103-109

  Rogers, Joanne ^a   Perlic, Mary ^a   Madigan, Elizabeth A ^b  

^a University Hospitals Home Care   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PATHWAY; COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HOME CARE; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MALE; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NURSING; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

AGED; APPOINTMENTS AND SCHEDULES; COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; CRITICAL PATHWAYS; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; EPISODE OF CARE; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; MALE; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT READMISSION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 33846846201     PISSN: 0884741X     EISSN: 15390713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004045-200702000-00011     Document Type: Article

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