Still, compensation needs a serious overhaul before the supply of home physicians grows significantly.
To assess nursing home physicians' and social workers' perceptions of the new Maryland Patient Plan of Care Form (PPOC).
This study assessed the effect of an educational intervention directed to nursing home physicians in reducing inappropriate prescription and improving health outcomes and resource utilization.
In addition, nursing home physicians' files are scrutinized.
Medical specialists included geriatricians, neurologists, and nursing home physicians.
In the home care group, the primary responsible physicians were home physicians in the community.
Nursing home physicians (NHP) at each healthcare organisations (four per site) will participate in the study.
The introduction of specialized nursing home physicians may be considered as an alternative.
In the protocol and training sessions, nursing home physicians are instructed to use the guidelines of the Dutch association of nursing home physicians (Verenso) for prescribing psychotropic medication [ 48].
Community pharmacist were more often consulted by GPs, and hospital pharmacists by nursing home physicians and clinical specialists.
Nursing homes employ elderly care physicians (formerly called nursing home physicians), which is a distinct medical specialty in the Netherlands.
