Community respiratory services

Development of a community-based model for respiratory care services

BACKGROUND Chronic respiratory diseases are a major cause of mortality and morbidity, and represent a high chronic disease burden, which is expected to rise between now and 2020. Care for chronic diseases is increasingly located in community settings for reasons of efficiency and patient preference, though what services should be offered and where is contested. Our aim was to identify the key c...

Community Respiratory Viral Infection

Study objective: To define the epidemiology, clinical manifestations, and long-term complications of respiratory viral infections in adult lung transplant recipients. Design: Retrospective review of the records of 122 adult lung transplant recipients over a 5-year period at one institution. Results: Ten episodes of infection with respiratory syncytial virus, parainfluenza, influenza, or adenovi...

Community HealtH ServiCeS

We aimed to describe the human resources and apparatuses of community health service (CHS) in Tongliao City of China and investigate the differences between CHS centers and stations. Field investigations and questionnaire-based surveys were conducted in 120 CHS organizations of Tongliao City, which were selected by a stratified multistage random cluster sampling method. Data were collected on t...

Community mental health services.

A. Credentialing and re-credentialing shall be conducted and documented for at least the following health care professionals employed or individually contracted by GCCMH through its Human Resources Department: 1. Physicians (M.D.s or D.O.s), including board certification or board eligibility, if applicable 2. Physician's Assistants Certified 3. Psychologists (Licensed, Limited License, or Tempo...

Genetics services in the community.