将社区护理人员添加到医生家访计划中:一项前性队列研究
Alexander J Ulintz1, Seth R Podolsky2,3, Brittany Lapin4,5
1Department of Emergency Medicine, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
|October 6, 2023
概括
社区护理医疗为老年人提供更快速的紧急护理,改善医生的获取和效率,而不会增加急性护理的使用. 这种模式有效地将紧急医疗服务与老年人的初级护理相结合.
科学领域:
- 老年医学 老年医学
- 医疗保健服务研究 医疗服务研究
- 紧急医疗服务 紧急医疗服务
背景情况:
- 基于家庭的初级保健支持老龄化,但与迫切需要作斗争.
- 社区护理医疗模型,使用EMS临床医生进行家庭护理,缺乏强有力的证据.
- 这项研究解决了对家庭老年人及时有效的紧急护理的需求.
研究的目的:
- 评估社区辅助医疗对老年人初级和急性护理利用的影响.
- 将社区护理人员与远程医疗医生模型与传统医生家访模型进行紧急评估.
- 评估二次结果,包括等待时间,再接收率和医生生产力.
主要方法:
- 潜在的队列研究设计,涉及在家庭基础上提供初级保健的老年人.
- 参与者按邮政编码分配到医生家庭访问模型或医生家庭访问和社区护理人员模型的组合模型中.
- 主要结果:6个月内初级保健和急性护理访问的中位数. 分析包括描述性统计和负二项式回归.
主要成果:
- 社区护理医疗组的初级保健访问量增加了29%,等待时间显著缩短 (1天与5天相比).
- 在社区护理医疗组中没有观察到急性护理使用或30天再入院的增加.
- 在社区护理医疗模型中,医生生产率增加了81%.
结论:
- 将社区辅助医疗与初级保健整合,为老年人提供更快的紧急评估.
- 这种混合模式改善了获得护理的机会,而不会增加急性护理利用率或再入院率.
- 这些发现支持将EMS和初级保健资源结合起来,以提高老年人的护理效率和患者结果.
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