Unscheduled hospital admissions from care homes are common and potentially avoidable but little guidance is available as to what constitutes an appropriate hospital admission. We surveyed healthcare professionals' opinions on a range of common scenarios affecting care-home residents. We developed seven ...
Care UK’s approach to the on-going management of Covid Our teams follow guidance around social distancing, respiratory and hand hygiene measures and the correct wearing of PPE. The vast majority are fully vaccinated. We do not accept Covid-positive admissions or those with symptoms of ARI or...
Covid-19 adult care home statistics Published: 19 December 2024 Protocol and procedures for secure accommodation services on the use of registered emergency beds Published: 19 December 2024 Matching looked-after children and young people: Admissions guidance for residential services Published: 17...
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The primary focus of this chapter is on decision support systems that provide guidance to clinicians and managers who have responsibilities directed at populations. Individuals who are explicitly charged with addressing population health include chief medical officers, quality officers, medical information/in...
van den Bussche et al. the avoidance of hospital admissions is estimated more optimistically when the collaboration is good [10]. Interprofessional collaboration is also a sensitive topic in other countries regarding the impact of good health care at home [5,6,7,8,16,29,30,31,32,34,35,40...
Secondly, children who may need biologics should be referred to and managed by specialist paediatric asthma centres; we define principles for the specialist team members, tests, and expertise necessary at such centres, as well as guidance on when homecare biologics delivery is and is not ...
Secondly, children who may need biologics should be referred to and managed by specialist paediatric asthma centres; we define principles for the specialist team members, tests, and expertise necessary at such centres, as well as guidance on when homecare biologics delivery is and is not ...
Guidance was sought from the Imperial College London Research Ethics Committee which advised that formal ethical approval was not required, as the online survey was deemed low-risk, involving non-invasive and non-sensitive information, of which the participants would remain non-identifiable and were ...
In our study, hospice care, especially hospice ward admission, improved patient’s medical autonomy in decision-making and led to a reduction in the aggressiveness of care, including reducing emergency department visits, intensive care unit admissions, antineoplastic drug administration, and most of ...