Home health services in primary care: What can we do?
Home health services is to give examination, diagnosis,treatment, and rehabilitation services to the patients whobedridden, have difficulties to access health facility due toa variety of chronic or malignant disease by professionalhealth care team. Family physicians that providing healthcare in prim...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Dicle University Medical School
2013-01-01
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| Series: | Dicle Medical Journal |
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| Online Access: | http://www.diclemedj.org/upload/sayi/27/Dicle%20Med%20J-01277.pdf |
| Summary: | Home health services is to give examination, diagnosis,treatment, and rehabilitation services to the patients whobedridden, have difficulties to access health facility due toa variety of chronic or malignant disease by professionalhealth care team. Family physicians that providing healthcare in primary care is responsible for to determine whowill need home health care services, and to make homevisit on a regular basis among registered patients in theirpopulations. It is seems that the biggest shortcoming thecontent and scope of this service is not yet a standard. Inthis article, how home health services should be given willbe discussed.Key words: Primary health care, home health care, bedriddenpatient |
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| ISSN: | 1300-2945 1308-9889 |