Evaluation of demographic characteristics, and general disease state of patients affiliated with home health care unit of Malatya State Hospital

ÖKSÜZ E., ONAT E., BUKHARI A., YAZICI Z., ÇETİN C.

NORTHERN CLINICS OF ISTANBUL = ISTANBUL KUZEY KLINIKLERI, cilt.1, sa.3, ss.166-172, 2014 (ESCI) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 1 Sayı: 3
  • Basım Tarihi: 2014
  • Doi Numarası: 10.14744/nci.2014.14633
  • Dergi Adı: NORTHERN CLINICS OF ISTANBUL = ISTANBUL KUZEY KLINIKLERI
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.166-172
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Aging, alzheimer, cerebrovascular disease, home medicare
  • İstanbul Üniversitesi-Cerrahpaşa Adresli: Evet

Özet

OBJECTIVE: Home Health Care Unit a unit provides health services for elderly, bedridden and individuals with chronic diseases at home along within the frame of the diagnosis, and treatments of the relevant experts. Therefore, it is intended to reduce the probable physical and emotional burden related to the patient that arise by commuting to the hospital, to increase the number of empty beds for other patients and to improve the living standard by reducing the risk of hospital infection. In this study, the demographic characteristics of housebound patients, their general disease and its relationship with age and gender was investigated.