title: Home care safety markers: a scoping review.
abstract: Safety in home care is a new research frontier, and one in which demand for services continues to rise. A scoping review of the home care literature on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and congestive heart failure was thus completed to identify safety markers that could serve to develop our understanding of safety in this sector. Results generated seven safety markers: (a) Home alone; (b) A fixed agenda in a foreign language; (c) Strangers in the home; (d) The butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker; (e) Medication mania; (f) Out of pocket: The cost of caring at home; and (g) My health for yours: Declining caregiver health.
authors.affiliation: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4R2, Canada. marilyn.macdonald@dal.ca
authors.forename: Marilyn
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Macdonald
authors.forename: Ariella
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lang
authors.forename: Jan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Storch
authors.forename: Lynn
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Stevenson
authors.forename: Susan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Donaldson
authors.forename: Tanya
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Barber
authors.forename: Kristine
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Iaboni
mesh_terms: D017028:Caregivers; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000628:therapy; D006699:Home Care Services; D006801:Humans; D055118:Medication Adherence; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D061214:Patient Safety; D029424:Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive / Q000628:therapy; D012934:Social Isolation