BACKGROUND This review identifies the content of virtual visits in community nursing services to older adults and explores the manner in which service users and the nurses use virtual visits. DESIGN An integrative literature review. METHOD Data collection comprised a literature search in three databases: Cinahl, Medline, and PubMed. In addition, a manual search of reference lists and expert...

Background Because of the variety of services and resources offered in the delivery of home health care, its management is a challenging and difficult task. Objectives The purpose of this study was to explore the administrative aspects of the delivery of home health care services. Methods This qualitative study was conducted based on the traditional content analysis approach in 2015 in Iran...

background: providing community-based mental health services is crucial and is an agreed plan between the iranian mental health office and the regional committee for the eastern mediterranean (affiliated with who). the aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of home-visit clinical case-management services on the hospitalization rate and other clinical outcomes in patients with seve...

A study was undertaken in southern peninsular state of India, the Tamil Nadu State, to assess the farmers’ “Willingness to pay” (WTP) for receiving annual health care services to their dairy animals. The districts of the state were categorized as “Livestock developed” (LD) and “Livestock under developed” (LUD) based on initial base line developed. Contingent valuation (CV) approach was used to ...

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To contain costs and increase incentives for efficient provision of care, prospective payment methods are being proposed for Medicare home health services. Although a shift to per episode payment is much discussed, the methods rely on the home health visit as a fundamental building block in setting rates and ceilings. Some propose setting fixed per visit prices in the interim until episode paym...

Background: During the COVID-19 pandemic, care for cancer patients may be disrupted for several reasons, leading to disease progression. Home-Based palliative care, if properly managed, can provide easy and safe access to care services for these patients. This study aimed to explore stakeholders’ perceptions of home-based palliative care for cancer patients during the pandemic. Methods: This q...

This article describes gaming, an interactive teaching strategy that promotes active learning. An evaluation study conducted with home health care nurses tested the use of a game as a teaching tool. The study evaluated learning outcomes and learners' level of engagement and satisfaction with an educational game as a teaching method.

This article describes the Medicare home health benefit and summarizes the growth and change in the use of the benefit and in the industry providing home health care. The article details the progress the Home Health Initiative has achieved in the key areas of quality assurance, administration and operations, and policy. It concludes with a discussion of future directions for reforming Medicare'...