Home Care Services

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "The Promotora Explained Everything": Participant Experiences During a Household-Level Diabetes Education Program. 
  • A Framework for Improving Chronic Critical Illness Care: Adapting the Medical Home's Central Tenets. 
  • A Mixed-Methods Evaluation of a Nurse-Led Community-Based Health Home for Ethnically Diverse Older Adults With Multimorbidity in the Adult Day Health Setting. 
  • A Prospective Cohort Study of Stability in Preferred Place of Death Among Patients With Stage IV Cancer in Singapore. 
  • A Telehealth Case Study: The Use of Telepresence Robot for Delivering Integrated Clinical Care. 
  • A cost-minimization analysis comparing azithromycin-based and levofloxacin-based protocols for the treatment of patients hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia: results from the CAP-IN trial. 
  • A home-based mentored vegetable gardening intervention demonstrates feasibility and improvements in physical activity and performance among breast cancer survivors. 
  • A multidimensional approach to case mix for home health services. 
  • A pilot study on the influence of an individualized and experiential training on cancer caregiver's self-efficacy in home care and symptom management. 
  • A randomized controlled trial of a theoretically-based behavioral nutrition intervention for community elders: lessons learned from the Behavioral Nutrition Intervention for Community Elders Study. 
  • A randomized controlled trial on Stroke telerehabilitation: The effects on falls self-efficacy and satisfaction with care. 
  • A theoretically based Behavioral Nutrition Intervention for Community Elders at high risk: the B-NICE randomized controlled clinical trial. 
  • Access to care: a home visitation program that links public health nurses, physicians, mothers, and babies. 
  • Activity restriction among wheelchair users. 
  • Admission international normalized ratio levels, early treatment strategies, and major bleeding risk among non-ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction patients on home warfarin therapy: insights from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry. 
  • Advancing the science of population-based measures of home-time. 
  • African Americans With Advanced Heart Failure Are More Likely to Die in a Health Care Facility Than at Home or in Hospice: An Analysis From the PAL-HF Trial. 
  • Alternative models for academic family practices. 
  • Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis care and research in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic: Challenges and opportunities. 
  • Are Stroke Survivors Discharged to the Recommended Postacute Setting? 
  • Are all health plans created equal? The physician's view. 
  • Assessing the Quality and Comparative Effectiveness of Team-Based Care for Heart Failure: Who, What, Where, When, and How. 
  • Assessment of Home-Time After Acute Ischemic Stroke in Medicare Beneficiaries. 
  • Association Between Symptom Burden and Time to Hospitalization, Nursing Home Placement, and Death Among the Chronically Ill Urban Homebound. 
  • Association between home health agency ownership status and discharge to community among Medicare beneficiaries. 
  • Association of hospice patients' income and care level with place of death. 
  • At-Home Versus In-Clinic INR Monitoring: A Cost-Utility Analysis from The Home INR Study (THINRS). 
  • Bringing Invisible Partners in Care out of the Shadows: Employment Effects of Informal Care Provision in Europe and Implications for the United States. 
  • COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond: Considerations and Costs of Telehealth Exercise Programs for Older Adults With Functional Impairments Living at Home-Lessons Learned From a Pilot Case Study. 
  • Case management decision making: goal transformation through discretion and client interpretation. 
  • Case mix controlled service use and expenditures in the social/health maintenance organization demonstration. 
  • Changes in home care use by disabled elderly persons: 1982-1994. 
  • Characteristics Associated with Home Health Care Referrals at Hospital Discharge: Results from the 2012 National Inpatient Sample. 
  • Clinical Performance Measures for Stroke Rehabilitation: Performance Measures From the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association. 
  • Community based lifestyle intervention for blood pressure reduction in children and young adults in developing country: cluster randomised controlled trial. 
  • Complexities and Challenges of Singapore Nurses Providing Postacute Home Care in Multicultural Communities: A Grounded Theory Study. 
  • Comprehensive support of family caregivers: Are there health system cost offsets? 
  • Connect-Home: Transitional Care of Skilled Nursing Facility Patients and their Caregivers. 
  • Cost effectiveness of home and community-based care. 
  • Critical pathway for administering high-dose chemotherapy followed by peripheral blood stem cell rescue in the outpatient setting. 
  • Development of a teletechnology protocol for in-home rehabilitation. 
  • Disparities in place of death for patients with primary brain tumors and brain metastases in the USA. 
  • Domestic helpers as frontline workers in China's home-based elder care: A systematic review. 
  • Dose of early intervention treatment during children's first 36 months of life is associated with developmental outcomes: an observational cohort study in three low/low-middle income countries. 
  • Early intervention program for adolescent mothers and their infants. 
  • Effect of a Universal Postpartum Nurse Home Visiting Program on Child Maltreatment and Emergency Medical Care at 5 Years of Age: A Randomized Clinical Trial. 
  • Effect of patient selection method on provider group performance estimates. 
  • Effects of an Individualized Caregiver Training Intervention on Self-Efficacy of Cancer Caregivers. 
  • Effects of telerehabilitation on physical function and disability for stroke patients: a randomized, controlled trial. 
  • End-of-Life Care Preference: Examination of Chinese Adults with Children and Those Who Lost Their Only Child. 
  • Evaluating the Quality of Home Care in China Using the Home Care Quality Assessment Tool. 
  • Evaluation of a discharge education protocol for pediatric patients with gastrostomy tubes. 
  • Expanding Palliative Medicine across Care Settings: One Health System Experience. 
  • Expenditures in caring for patients with dementia who live at home. 
  • Facility and Geographic Variation in Rates of Successful Community Discharge After Inpatient Rehabilitation Among Medicare Fee-for-Service Beneficiaries. 
  • Factors associated with health discussion network size and composition among elderly recipients of long-term services and supports. 
  • Family risk as a predictor of initial engagement and follow-through in a universal nurse home visiting program to prevent child maltreatment. 
  • Feasibility, acceptability and cost of home-based HIV testing in rural Kenya. 
  • From Hospital to Home: Impact of Transitional Care on Cost, Hospitalisation and Mortality. 
  • From concept to application: the impact of a community-wide intervention to improve the delivery of preventive services to children. 
  • High-technology and hospice home care. Strange bedfellows. 
  • Hiring and Retaining Home Care Nurses. 
  • Home Health Care Use and Post-Discharge Outcomes After Heart Failure Hospitalizations. 
  • Home Urodynamic Pressures and Volume Measurement for the Neurogenic Bladder: Initial Validation Study. 
  • Home assessment of diurnal intraocular pressure in healthy children using the Icare rebound tonometer. 
  • Home care expenses for the disabled elderly. 
  • Home health and skilled nursing facility use: 1982-90. 
  • Home health care and patterns of subsequent VA and medicare health care utilization for veterans. 
  • Home health care: house calls revisited. 
  • Home or nursing home: does place of residence affect longevity in patients with Alzheimer's disease? The experience of CERAD patients. 
  • Home tonometry for management of pediatric glaucoma. 
  • Home tonometry in childhood glaucoma: clinical indications and physician and parental attitudes. 
  • Home-visiting intervention to improve child care among American Indian adolescent mothers: a randomized trial. 
  • Homecare Encounters: An Organizational Response to Innovative Care for Patients Undergoing Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation During COVID-19. 
  • Hospice policy and patterns of care. 
  • House calls to Cardinal Jackson. 
  • How state-funded home care programs respond to changes in Medicare home health care: resource allocation decisions on the front line. 
  • Hypertensive patients' use of blood pressure monitors stationed in pharmacies and other locations: a cross-sectional mail survey. 
  • Impact of home warfarin use on the treatment and outcomes of patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention. 
  • Impact of restarting home neuropsychiatric medications on sedation outcomes in medical intensive care unit patients. 
  • Implementing a Standardized Transition Care Plan in Skilled Nursing Facilities. 
  • Implementing a home-based exercise prescription for older patients with peripheral arterial disease and intermittent claudication: a quality improvement project. 
  • Implications of changes in households and living arrangements for future home-based care needs and costs for disabled elders in China. 
  • In-home assessment of dementia by nurses: experience using the CERAD evaluations. Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer's Disease. 
  • In-home mental health treatment for individuals with HIV. 
  • Increasing healthcare resource utilization after coronary artery bypass graft surgery in the United States. 
  • Independent home use of a brain-computer interface by people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. 
  • Infants With Technology Dependence: Facilitating the Road to Home. 
  • Informal And Formal Home Care For Older Adults With Disabilities Increased, 2004-16. 
  • Informal and formal care infrastructure and perceived need for caregiver training for frail US veterans referred to home and community-based services. 
  • Informal care and health care use of older adults. 
  • Informal caregiver training on home care and cancer symptom management prior to hospital discharge: a feasibility study. 
  • Intern Transitions of Care Curriculum Through Posthospital Home and Skilled Nursing Facility Visits. 
  • Interorganizational Context When Implementing Multisector Partnered Programs: A Qualitative Analysis of Veteran Directed Care. 
  • Is a home-care network necessary to access the Medicare hospice benefit? 
  • Is there no place like home? Caregivers recall reasons for and experience upon transfer from home hospice to inpatient facilities. 
  • Issues affecting minority participation in research studies of Alzheimer disease. 
  • Just for Us: in-home care for frail elderly and disabled individuals with low incomes. 
  • Just for us. 
  • Leadership is about ordinary people doing extraordinary things. 
  • Linking clinical and public health approaches to improve access to health care for socially disadvantaged mothers and children. A feasibility study. 
  • Long-term care insurance: Does experience matter? 
  • Long-term care service mix in the Veterans Health Administration after home care expansion. 
  • Long-term oxygen therapy: conference summary. 
  • Low-Flow Domiciliary Oxygen as a Mechanism of Ongoing Oxidative Stress. 
  • Management of osteoporosis among home health and long-term care patients with a prior fracture. 
  • Management of preterm labor patients at home: does daily uterine activity monitoring and nursing support make a difference? 
  • Management of preterm labor. 
  • Measuring nursing care time and tasks in long-term services and supports: one size does not fit all. 
  • Medically Attended Catheter Complications Are Common in Patients With Outpatient Central Venous Catheters. 
  • Menopausal status, moderate-intensity walking, and symptoms in midlife women. 
  • Metaanalysis and review of heart failure disease management randomized controlled clinical trials. 
  • Negative pressure wound therapy technologies for chronic wound care in the home setting: A systematic review. 
  • Net economic costs of dementia in Canada. 
  • Nurse home visits for infants and toddlers of low-income families improve behavioural, language and attention outcomes at age 6-9 years; paraprofessional visits improve visual attention and task switching. 
  • Nursing home research: the first International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics (IAGG) research conference. 
  • Optimal NIV Medicare Access Promotion: Patients With COPD: A Technical Expert Panel Report From the American College of Chest Physicians, the American Association for Respiratory Care, the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, and the American Thoracic Society. 
  • Optimal NIV Medicare Access Promotion: Patients With Hypoventilation Syndromes: A Technical Expert Panel Report From the American College of Chest Physicians, the American Association for Respiratory Care, the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, and the American Thoracic Society. 
  • Optimal NIV Medicare Access Promotion: Patients With Thoracic Restrictive Disorders: A Technical Expert Panel Report From the American College of Chest Physicians, the American Association for Respiratory Care, the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, and the American Thoracic Society. 
  • Overcoming barriers. Home care for dementia patients. 
  • Oxygen for relief of dyspnoea in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease who would not qualify for home oxygen: a systematic review and meta-analysis. 
  • Patient symptoms and family coping. Predictors of hospice utilization patterns. 
  • Perceived acceptability of home-based couples voluntary HIV counseling and testing in Northern Tanzania. 
  • Personalized home-based interval exercise training may improve cardiorespiratory fitness in cancer patients preparing to undergo hematopoietic cell transplantation. 
  • Pharmacist Identification of Medication Therapy Problems Involving Cognition Among Older Adults Followed by a Home-Based Care Team. 
  • Pharmacologically treated diabetes and hospitalization among older Norwegians receiving homecare services from 2009 to 2014: a nationwide register study. 
  • Place of death for patients with cancer in the United States, 1999 through 2015: Racial, age, and geographic disparities. 
  • Predicting nursing home placement among home- and community-based services program participants. 
  • Predictors and patterns of home health care utilization among older adults in Shanghai, China. 
  • Preliminary Data from the Caring for Older Adults and Caregivers at Home (COACH) Program: A Care Coordination Program for Home-Based Dementia Care and Caregiver Support in a Veterans Affairs Medical Center. 
  • Preventing burns in the elderly: a guide for home healthcare professionals. 
  • Projecting Long-Term Care Costs for Home and Community-Based Services in China from 2005 to 2050. 
  • Psychological discomfort and mental illness in patients with AIDS: implications for home care. 
  • Qualifying Patients for Noninvasive Positive Pressure Ventilation Devices on Hospital Discharge. 
  • Qualitative evaluation of South Carolina's Postpartum/Infant Home Visit program. 
  • Randomized controlled trial of universal postnatal nurse home visiting: impact on emergency care. 
  • Rapid self testing for HIV infection. 
  • Rationale and design of the Home Automatic External Defibrillator Trial (HAT). 
  • Reach out to ENhancE Wellness in Older Cancer Survivors (RENEW): design, methods and recruitment challenges of a home-based exercise and diet intervention to improve physical function among long-term survivors of breast, prostate, and colorectal cancer. 
  • Recruitment of African American women to a walking program: eligibility, ineligibility, and attrition during screening. 
  • Remote Usability Testing and Satisfaction with a Mobile Health Medication Inquiry System in CKD. 
  • Resource use in the last 6 months of life among medicare beneficiaries with heart failure, 2000-2007. 
  • Safety of union home care aides in Washington State. 
  • Screening for diabetes and hypertension in a rural low income setting in western Kenya utilizing home-based and community-based strategies. 
  • Serendipities leading to private practice. 
  • Set the Children Free: Making the Most of Ventilator Liberation Protocols. 
  • Strategies to reduce hospital readmissions: a review. 
  • Structured Documentation of Home Ventilator Settings in Children: A Quality Improvement Project. 
  • Symptomatic oxygen for non-hypoxaemic chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. 
  • Systematic review of the effectiveness of non-pharmacological interventions to improve quality of life of people with dementia. 
  • Taking a risk to save a life. 
  • The Effects of Home Care Provider Mix on the Care Recipient: An International, Systematic Review of Articles from 2000 to 2020. 
  • The Future of Informatics in Aged Care: An International Perspective. 
  • The Incidence of Perioperative Adverse Events in the Very Elderly Undergoing Urogynecologic Surgery. 
  • The Integrated Comprehensive Care Program: A Novel Home Care Initiative After Major Thoracic Surgery. 
  • The Michigan Surgical Home and Optimization Program is a scalable model to improve care and reduce costs. 
  • The effects of in-home rehabilitation on task self-efficacy in mobility-impaired adults: A randomized clinical trial. 
  • The impact of frequency of patient self-testing of prothrombin time on time in target range within VA Cooperative Study #481: The Home INR Study (THINRS), a randomized, controlled trial. 
  • The patient with chronic obstructive lung disease and his care at home. 
  • The physician and home care of the elderly patient. 
  • The prevalence and incidence of pharmacologically treated diabetes among older people receiving home care services in Norway 2009-2014: a nationwide longitudinal study. 
  • The quality of pharmacotherapy in older veterans discharged from the emergency department or urgent care clinic. 
  • The relative effects of home care client characteristics on the resource allocation process: do personality and demeanor matter? 
  • Trends and Factors Associated with Place of Death for Individuals with Dementia in the United States. 
  • Triply-diagnosed patients in the HIV/AIDS Treatment Adherence, Health Outcomes and Cost Study: patterns of home care use. 
  • Use of Medicare services before and after introduction of the prospective payment system. 
  • Use of Routine Home Health Care and Deviations From an Uncomplicated Recovery Pathway After Radical Prostatectomy. 
  • Use of home blood pressure monitoring by hypertensive patients in primary care: survey of a practice-based research network cohort. 
  • Using Root Cause Analysis to Inform a Falls Practice Change in the Home Care Setting. 
  • Utilization and Cost Effects of the VHA Caring for Older Adults and Caregivers at Home (COACH) Program. 
  • Utilizing Trigger Films to Enhance Communication Skills of Home Care Clinicians. 
  • Validity and Reliability of the Positive Aspects of Caregiving (PAC) Scale and Development of Its Shorter Version (S-PAC) Among Family Caregivers of Older Adults. 
  • Voices in the record. 
  • What is the marginal benefit of payment-induced family care? Impact on Medicaid spending and health of care recipients. 
  • Where Are We and What Shall We Do Next? A Qualitative Study of the Quality of Home Care in Shanghai, China. 
  • Where Children Die: Obstacles to Quality End-of-Life Care. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Curtis, Lesley H., Professor in Population Health Sciences, Medicine, General Internal Medicine
  • Dodge, Kenneth A., William McDougall Distinguished Professor of Public Policy Studies, Duke Science & Society
  • Gold, Deborah T., Professor Emeritus in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychiatry, Child & Family Mental Health & Community Psychiatry
  • O'Connor, Christopher Michael, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology