Episodic medical home interventions in severe bedridden Chronic Respiratory Failure patients: A 4 year retrospective study

Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease - Pulmonary Series

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 113-118

  Barbano, L ^a   Bertella, E ^a   Vitacca, Michele ^a  

^a IRCCS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Home care; Home visits; Respiratory failure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBULANCE; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BREATHING EXERCISE; CAREGIVER; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CHRONIC RESPIRATORY FAILURE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMORBIDITY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST CONTROL; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HOME CARE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; OXYGEN SATURATION; OXYGEN THERAPY; PATIENT REFERRAL; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PHYSICIAN; PRESCRIPTION; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; PULSE OXIMETER; REHABILITATION CARE; REIMBURSEMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRACHEOSTOMY;

EID: 71249104265     PISSN: 11220643     EISSN: 2465101X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4081/monaldi.2009.356     Document Type: Article

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