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Complex home care: Part I--Utilization and costs to families for health care services each year.

Ubolrat Piamjariyakul, Vicki M Ross, Donna Macan Yadrich, Arthur R Williams, Lyn Howard, Carol E Smith

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Article in Nursing economic$. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Ubolrat PiamjariyakulUniversity of Kansas School of Nursing, Kansas City, KS, USA.
Vicki M Ross
Donna Macan Yadrich
Arthur R Williams
Lyn Howard
Carol E Smith

Funding

Technological Home Care: Improving CaregivingR01NR009078 · NINR · UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER · PI SMITH, CAROL E · 2005 to 2009
$2.5M
NINR NIH HHS R01 NR009078
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

As many as 120 persons per million people in the United States are dependent on the lifelong, complex, technology-based care of home parenteral nutrition (HPN) infusions. However, data for costs paid by families for HPN-related health care services and for non-reimbursed expenditures are rarely tabulated and most often underestimated. The goals of this study were to describe health care services used by families to manage HPN, report the frequency of each service used annually, and estimate the average annual non-reimbursed costs to families for these health services. The numerous and varied types of services reported and the time required to coordinate and access HPN services illustrates the challenges faced by patients and their family caregivers. The lack of a coordinated and efficient system for delivering complex chronic care results in poorer outcomes for HPN patients and their families on-reimbursed costs and the extensive amount of time required to coordinate multi-professional services negatively impacts the clinical outcomes and quality of life of complex chronic home care.

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FamilyHealth Care CostsAllied Health PersonnelComplementary TherapiesHome Care ServicesUnited Statescosthealth serviceshome careHome Parenteral Nutritiontechnology

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PMID21625407
PMCPMC3101506

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