Clinical performance and quality health care
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Clin Perform Qual Health Care · Jul 1995
Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical TrialCan a house call by a public health nurse improve the quality of the discharge process for geriatric patients?
To determine whether there was any benefit from a single house call by a health visitor (a public health nurse) to an elderly person after discharge home from a geriatric hospital. ⋯ A house call by a health visitor to elderly patients after discharge from geriatric wards does not measurably improve the quality of the discharge.