Episodic medical home interventions in severe bedridden Chronic Respiratory Failure patients: a 4 year retrospective study | Zendy

Luca Barbano | Zendy; E. Bertella | Zendy; Michele Vitacca | Zendy

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Episodic medical home interventions in severe bedridden Chronic Respiratory Failure patients: a 4 year retrospective study

Author(s) -

Luca Barbano,

E. Bertella,

Michele Vitacca

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

monaldi archives for chest disease

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.196

H-Index - 46

eISSN - 2465-101X

pISSN - 1122-0643

DOI - 10.4081/monaldi.2009.356

Subject(s) - medicine , psychological intervention , retrospective cohort study , respiratory failure , intensive care medicine , respiratory system , pediatrics , physical therapy , emergency medicine , psychiatry

Home care for respiratory patients includes a complex array of services delivered in an uncontrolled setting. The role of a respiratory specialist inside the home healthcare team has been scarcely studied up to now. Our aims were to analyse the number and quality of episodic home visits performed by respiratory physicians to severe bedridden Chronic Respiratory Failure (CRF) patients, and also to evaluate the safety of tracheotomy tube substitutions at home.

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