Out Of Reach: Inequities In The Use Of High-Quality Home Health Agencies: Study examines inequities in the use of high-quality home health agencies.

SA Fashaw-Walters, M Rahman, G Gee, V Mor… - Health …, 2022 - healthaffairs.org
Patients receiving home health services from high-quality home health agencies often
experience fewer adverse outcomes (for example, hospitalizations) than patients receiving …

[HTML][HTML] The influence of racial differences in the demand for healthcare in South Africa: A case of public healthcare

D Mhlanga, R Garidzirai - … journal of environmental research and public …, 2020 - mdpi.com
The study sought to analyse the influence of racial differences in the demand for public
healthcare in South Africa, using the 2018 General Household Survey (GHS) data. This was …

Essential but excluded: building disaster preparedness capacity for home health care workers and home care agencies

E Franzosa, T Wyte-Lake, EK Tsui, JM Reckrey… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - Elsevier
COVID-19 has demonstrated the essential role of home care services in supporting
community-dwelling older and disabled individuals through a public health emergency. As …

Transitional care of older ethnic minority patients: An integrative review

I Dolu, M Hayter, L Serrant - Journal of Advanced Nursing, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Aims To critically synthesize the empirical literature on practice in transitional care and how
to meet the care needs of older ethnic minority populations who discharged from hospital to …

[HTML][HTML] Data science trends relevant to nursing practice: a rapid review of the 2020 literature

BJ Douthit, RL Walden, K Cato… - Applied clinical …, 2022 - thieme-connect.com
Background The term “data science” encompasses several methods, many of which are
considered cutting edge and are being used to influence care processes across the world …

[HTML][HTML] Timing of home health care initiation and 30-day rehospitalizations among medicare beneficiaries with diabetes by race and ethnicity

JM Smith, H Lin, C Thomas-Hawkins, J Tsui… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Older adults with diabetes are at elevated risk of complications following hospitalization.
Home health care services mitigate the risk of adverse events and facilitate a safe transition …

Live discharge from hospice due to acute hospitalization: the role of neighborhood socioeconomic characteristics and race/ethnicity

D Russell, EA Luth, M Ryvicker, KH Bowles… - Medical care, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Background: Acute hospitalization is a frequent reason for live discharge from hospice.
Although risk factors for live discharge among hospice patients have been well documented …

Racial and ethnic disparities in home health referral among adult Medicare patients

O Yakusheva, KA Lee, A Keller, ME Weiss - Medical Care, 2024 - journals.lww.com
Background: Home health care (HHC) services following hospital discharge provide
essential continuity of care to mitigate risks of posthospitalization adverse outcomes and …

[PDF][PDF] Medicare and home health: Taking stock in the COVID-19 era

CH Van Houtven, WD Dawson - … Fund Issue Brief, 2020 - commonwealthfund.org
ABSTRACT ISSUE: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Medicare home health has
received little attention. GOALS: Understand the effects of COVID-19 on Medicare home …

“Doing the right thing”: Family caregivers managing medical and nursing tasks in the postacute home health care setting

JAD Chase, D Russell, DB Kaplan… - Journal of Applied …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Family caregivers often manage complex medical and nursing tasks (MNTs) for older adults
transitioning from hospital to home. To explore caregivers' experiences managing MNTs in …