Integrating a pharmacist into a home healthcare agency care model: Impact on hospitalizations and emergency visits

Home Healthcare Nurse

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 146-152

  Reidt, Shannon L ^a,d   Larson, Tom A ^a   Hadsall, Ronald S ^a   Uden, Donald L ^a   Blade, Mary Ann ^b   Branstad, Rachel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b Minnesota Visiting Nurse Agency   (United States)

^c HENNEPIN COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d WDH 7 103 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; HOME CARE; HUMAN; MALE; MANPOWER; MEDICARE; MEDICATION THERAPY MANAGEMENT; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PHARMACIST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; MEDICATION THERAPY MANAGEMENT; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; PHARMACISTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84896325378     PISSN: 0884741X     EISSN: 15390713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NHH.0000000000000024     Document Type: Article

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