Evaluation of an aged care nurse practitioner service: quality of care within a residential aged care facility hospital avoidance service
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- 作者：Trudy Dwyer ; Alison Craswell ; Dolene Rossi…
- 关键词：Nurse practitioner ; Donabedian ; Aged care facility ; Geriatrics ; Health service evaluation
- 刊名：BMC Health Services Research
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：December 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：17
- 期：1
- 全文大小：447KB
- 刊物主题：Public Health; Health Administration; Health Informatics; Nursing Research;
- 出版者：BioMed Central
- ISSN：1472-6963
- 卷排序：17
文摘
BackgroundReducing avoidable hospitialisation of aged care facility (ACF) residents can improve the resident experience and their health outcomes. Consequently many variations of hospital avoidance (HA) programs continue to evolve. Nurse practitioners (NP) with expertise in aged care have the potential to make a unique contribution to hospital avoidance programs. However, little attention has been dedicated to service evaluation of this model and the quality of care provided. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the quality of an aged care NP model of care situated within a HA service in a regional area of Australia.