title: Patients go home for care. But do their doctors make house calls?
abstract: Caring for a patient at home no longer consists simply of a black bag and a stethoscope warmed in the physician's palm. No longer is it a quarantine sign the physician tacked up on the front door, or a thermometer and an injection of penicillin. Today, taking care of a patient at home often involves sophisticated equipment, a highly trained staff of nurses and allied professionals, and a set of skills and a body of knowledge with which many physicians are neither familiar nor comfortable.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Teigen
mesh_terms: D006699:Home Care Services / Q000639:trends*; D006792:House Calls / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D008910:Minnesota; D010351:Patient Discharge