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| Retention of clients in service under two models of home health care for HIV/AIDS | | Author(s) | G J Huba, David Cherin, Lisa A Melchior |
| Journal title | Home Health Care Services Quarterly, vol 17, no 3, 1998 |
| Pages | pp 17-26 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | AIDS ; Terminal care ; Therapeutic services [domiciliary] ; Home nursing ; Management [care] ; Medical workers ; Multi disciplinary ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Data were collected from 549 AIDS patients admitted for medical/surgical home care services to the Visiting Nurse Association of Los Angeles (VNA-LA), to determine if a transprofessional, care management approach (experimental group) produces different patterns of retention in home treatment compared to a traditional treatment approach (control group). The care management group approach uses an interdisciplinary mix of allied health professionals, who adhere to a service delivery protocol based on an active medical, surgical treatment (curative services) as well as on pain, symptoms, and emotional care (palliative services). On admission to home-care services, patients were randomly assigned to the experimental (transprofessional) or control (traditional) treatment group. In the earliest stages, transprofessional patients tend to be more likely to stay in treatment, probably due to greater bonding to the programme, but are more likely to leave after about a year, as they are transferred to hospice care. An integrated model of service delivery, based on interdisciplinary care management, provides a quality of life enhancing and cost-effective method in provision of home-care services for terminally ill AIDS patients. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990426003 A |
| Classmark | CQTT: LV: N3: N4: QA: QT: 3DM: 7T |
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