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9781582550398

Pocket Guide to Home Care Standards : Complete Guidelines for Clinical Practice, Documentation, and Reimbursement

  • ISBN13:

    9781582550398

  • ISBN10:

    1582550395

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-09-01
  • Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
  • Purchase Benefits
List Price: $37.95

Summary

This compact reference helps you obtain maximum reimbursement for patient care. It includes comprehensive, practical information on standards of patient care, quality requirements, and documentation criteria for reimbursement. Part I explains home care essentials, identifies key members of the home care team, and details maintaining quality in home care, resolving legal and ethical issues, conducting a proper home care visit, and thoroughly and accurately documenting care. Part II covers adult, maternal-neonatal, pediatric, and psychiatric disorders and treatments. Each entry features a nursing diagnosis with patient outcomes, previsit checklist, safety requirements, major diagnostic codes, defense of homebound status, skilled nursing services, interdisciplinary actions, discharge plan, documentation requirements, reimbursement reminders, and insurance hints.

Table of Contents

Contributors vii
Foreword xi
How to use this book xiii
Part I Home care essentials 1(106)
Understanding home care
2(13)
Identifying the home care team
15(16)
Maintaining quality in home care
31(10)
Recognizing legal pitfalls
41(13)
Preparing for and conducting home visits
54(21)
Documenting home care
75(32)
Part II Home care standards for disorders and treatments 107(460)
Adult disorders and treatments
108(337)
Maternal-neonatal disorders and treatments
445(34)
Pediatric disorders and treatments
479(60)
Psychiatric disorders and treatments
539(28)
Part III Clinical pathways in home care 567(70)
Using clinical pathways in home care
568(69)
Part IV Appendices 637(37)
A Fifth-digit subclassification of diagnoses
638(5)
B Hospice care
643(8)
C Resources for professionals, patients, and caregivers
651(7)
D Durable medical equipment coverage
658(6)
E Gordon's functional health patterns
664(2)
F English-Spanish medical translations
666(8)
Selected references 674(1)
Index 675

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