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- Joann Ahrens.
- Center for Home Care Policy & Research, Visiting Nurse Service of New York, 5 Penn Plaza, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10001, USA. jahrens@vnsny.org
- Home Healthc Nurse. 2005 Mar 1; 23 (3): 147-9.
AbstractThere is a lack of condition-specific evidence-based guidelines in the home care field. A recent article by Peterson (2004) suggests that the home care industry must now address this on several fronts, including: 1. adopting guidelines for specific conditions from other settings, 2. implementing selected "best practices" developed by within home care agencies (that are usually consensus-based), and 3. collecting outcomes data with the purpose of creating a home care specific evidence base.This column summarizes Peterson's (2004) recent work on the importance of creating an evidence base for the home care field.
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