Open AccessCommunity Health Worker Encounter Forms: A Tool to Guide and Document Patient Visits and Worker Performance
Author(s) -
Celeste A. Lemay,
Warren J. Ferguson,
J. Lee Hargraves
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2011.300416
Subject(s) - set (abstract data type) , community health workers , work (physics) , community health , medicine , family medicine , psychology , nursing , public health , computer science , health services , environmental health , mechanical engineering , population , engineering , programming language
We explored the benefits of using community health worker (CHW) encounter forms to collect data on patient interactions and assessed the effectiveness of these forms in guiding and directing interactions.