title: Identifying skilled management and evaluation needs of home health care patients.
abstract: This article describes the development of an assessment inventory to identify home care clients needing skilled management and evaluation services. Evidence supporting the inventory's content, criterion-related and predictive validity is presented. The inventory accurately predicted those patients readmitted within 60 days of discharge. Home health care nurses found the inventory easy to use without being time consuming. Use of the inventory by home health care nurses will permit care agencies to more easily document the need to continue care and reduce recidivism and cost while increasing care quality.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, University of Texas at Arlington, USA.
authors.forename: C L
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Cason
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Rhoads
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dean
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003152:Community Health Nursing; D015577:Geriatric Assessment; D005851:Geriatric Nursing; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006699:Home Care Services; D006801:Humans; D012017:Referral and Consultation; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires