The aim was to evaluate the efficacy of limited community based care provided by nurses to COPD patients.
Yet, medication safety research has focused overwhelmingly on institutional based care provided by paid healthcare professionals, which often has little applicability to the home care setting.
To date, medication safety research has focused overwhelmingly on institutional based care provided by paid healthcare professionals, which often has little applicability to the home care setting.
In Mozambique, for example, the number of Aids patients receiving home-based care provided by volunteers rose from 17,790 to just under 100,000 between 2004 and 2008.
To minimize barriers to care, different models of service delivery have been implemented in rural areas to increase accessibility of ART, including the use of nurses [10], [11], [12], [13], [14], [15] and general practitioners [16] in the provision of ART at primary care clinics, and home-based care provided by trained field officers [17] and volunteers [18].
In Rebergen et al's 17 18 study, the problem-solving intervention was a component of guideline-based care provided by OPs who received training in the guidelines.
Compared to evidence-based care provided by a physician, naprapathic manual therapy implied a greater improvement in pain and disability for patients with non-specific back and/or neck pain in the short as well as in the long term.
13 Caring for patients with chronic diseases, such as smoking, should be based on care provided by multidisciplinary teams, with the aim of promoting, from all possible angles, effective interventions that ensure patients are involved in their self-care.
This allowed the participants to respond in a way that reflected their perceptions and experiences regarding community based maternal health care provided by CMWs.
Patients' with acute stroke achieve the best outcomes if cared for in stroke units where coordinated team based care is provided by professionals with specialised skills [ 3].
