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The role of human factors in home health care : workshop summary /

"The rapid growth of home health care has raised many unsolved issues and will have consequences that are far too broad for any one group to analyze in their entirety. Yet a major influence on the safety, quality, and effectiveness of home health care will be the set of issues encompassed by th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Olson, Steve, 1956- (Autor)
Autores Corporativos: National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on the Role of Human Factors in Home Health Care, National Research Council (U.S.). Board on Human-Systems Integration
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, [2010], ©2010.
Colección:Online access: NCBI NCBI Bookshelf.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part 1. Workshop summary
  • Introduction
  • The people who receive and provide home health care
  • Home health care tasks and tools
  • The environments of home health care
  • Concluding discussion
  • pt. II. Workshop papers. The health care challenge : matching care to people in their home environments / Neil Charness
  • Informal caregivers in the United States : prevalence, caregiver characteristics, and ability to provide care / Richard Schulz and Connie A. Tompkins
  • Medical devices in home health care / Molly Follette Story
  • Information technology and systems in home health care / Jonathan Sanford
  • Impact of cultural, social, and community environments on home care / Steven M. Albert
  • Effects of policy, reimbursement, and regulation on home health care / Peter A. Boling
  • Appendix A. Workshop agenda and participants.