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Community care provision: data collection for planning

06 August 1997

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Primary health care

Four years ago in Scotland, a multidisciplinary group of practising healthcare professionals began work on the development of a dataset to collect information which...

Hospital at home: the Bromsgrove experience

04 February 1998

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Clinical

A hospital at home (HaH) scheme is a system that provides acute care in the home. Patients are cared for to a standard that would otherwise require hospitalisation....

Leg ulcer care: the need for a cost-effective community service

31 July 1996

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Special focus: Tissue Viability

During the 1980s, a major leg ulcer research programme undertaken at Charing Cross Hospital led to the development of a treatment regime which resulted in complete...

Leg ulcer care: auditing the service in the community

31 July 1996

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Special focus: tissue viability

Leg ulcer care in the UK places a huge burden on NHS resources, costing between £300 and £400 million per year (Moffatt et al 1992) and affecting approximately 1.5...

Cognitive bladder training in the community

16 April 1997

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Special focus: continence

Nocturnal enuresis has been the subject of much research over the years, giving rise to a vast array of publications into which healthcare professionals can delve...

Discharge planning: the need for effective communication

12 June 1996

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Liaison nursing

Discharge planning has been described as a process aimed at attaining continuity of care (Armitage 1991). This process should ensure a prompt and well orchestrated...

Early discharge schemes for hysterectomy patients

10 July 1996

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Gynaecology

Hysterectomy is one of the most frequently performed and costly major surgical procedures, according to Schofield et al (1991) and Garry and Hercz (1995). Therefore,...

Evaluating primary care interventions for incontinence

28 February 1996

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Continence care

Regular urinary incontinence affects one in six adult women. However, for the majority, good continence services are difficult to access and few primary care-based...

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