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Communication between hospitals and home health care is suboptimal

Home Health Clinicians Frequently Lack Access to Hospital Records

Additionally, patients often not prepared with realistic expectations to receive home health care
Home health care workers' beliefs about infection prevention seem to have a greater influence on prevention protocol compliance than their absolute knowledge of infection control practices

Infection Control Compliance Not Tied to Knowledge

Rather, home health care nurses' beliefs and perceptions seem to have most impact on compliance
Home hemodialysis is associated with better survival than in-center hemodialysis among incident dialysis patients

ASN: Home Dialysis Associated With Improved Survival

Survival at 1 year was 91.7 percent with home dialysis versus 81.4 percent with in-center dialysis
Advance care planning in frail older adults does not increase patient activation or quality of life

Advance Care Planning Doesn’t Aid Quality of Life

But, participation does increase advance directives, surrogate decision-makers
Physicians do not meaningfully engage with skilled home health care agencies in the certification of Medicare beneficiaries' plans of care

Docs Engage Little to Coordinate Medicare Home Health Care

Findings based on use of form CMS-485 for plan certification between home health care agencies
The "Minding the Baby" parenting home visiting program can significantly lower rates of obesity in young children

Home Visit Program Can Help Prevent Toddler Obesity

Findings based on intervention in low-socioeconomic-status communities
About 6 to 28 percent of seniors refuse home health care offered when they are discharged from the hospital

Report Addresses Patient Refusal of Home Health Care Services

Importance of home health care services increasing, partly due to shorter hospital stays, complex needs
Nurse practitioners could meet the growing need for house calls to frail

Nurse Practitioners Could Help Meet Need for Elderly Home Care

Restrictions in some U.S. states are an obstacle, researcher says
In 2013

2013 Saw 1.7 Million Home Visits From Primary Care Doctors

9 to 10 percent of primary care providers performed 44 percent of these visits in 2013
More older Americans with chronic health problems are opting to live at home

Greater Numbers of U.S. Seniors Are Being Cared for at Home

Sharpest increase in home care observed among older Americans with milder disabilities