All patient information specific to diabetes management from each Home Care visit to implement the intensification protocols will be forwarded to the patient's family physician.
Depending on the results and the advice, the screened person received a letter or call for a GP visit to implement the lifestyle or pharmaceutical advices and follow-up as chosen by the GP.
Moreover, we did not find the home visits difficult to implement, and we were successful in gaining access to 88% of the homes.
However, surveys usually rely on readings taken at a single visit, the option to implement the diagnosis on readings taken at multiple visits, being limited by costs.
5 All these surveys rely on readings taken at a single visit, the option to implement the diagnosis on readings taken at multiple visits, as recommended by guidelines for clinical practice, 6 7 being limited due to costs.
To fulfill the goals of the HCCI framework, two strategies, problem-based inquiry and historical-context-embedded visiting, were used to implement a HCCI guidebook.
"I was so impressed with another baby friendly hospital that I had visited that I wanted to implement the programme here," says David Gagua.
One practice implemented routine home visits by the CHW to support self-management, while another practice had only recently began to implement home visits for diabetic patients with abnormal clinical values of hemoglobin levels.
Due to the suboptimal scheduling and attending of the referral visits, study coordinators were asked to implement a limited telephone contact protocol to try to reach individual participants for a total of three attempts.
Training materials included copies of the reproductive health palm-sized brochure, reproductive health care setting medical guidelines, slides describing the prevalence of IPV and RC and relevance for family planning services, and video vignettes illustrating common reproductive health visits demonstrating with actors how to implement this universal education and brief counseling intervention.
