Home health nursing care: a comparison of not-for-profit and for-profit agencies.
The recent rapid growth in the numbers of for-profit and not-for-profit agencies delivering home health care raises questions about whether these agencies are serving different patient populations. Not-for-profit agencies were found to serve more indigent and medicaid patients than for-profits. Nurses from both kinds of agencies participated in this study and their patient case management activities are reported and compared for differences in their practice.
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University of Virginia, School of Nursing, Charlottesville 22903.
Cloonan
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D006699:Home Care Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D009740:Nursing Staff / Q000523:psychology; D010067:Ownership / Q000145:classification*; D010347:Patient Care Planning / Q000592:standards*; D010361:Patients / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D015144:Southeastern United States; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires