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PubMed1977

[Pediatric home care services in Belgium].

In 1970 a home care service for children was started by the committee for public assistance in Brussells with medical supervision from the department of paediatrics of the University. The main features are as follows: - It is exclusively paediatric and its aims are to shorten or avoid hospital admissions, or to provide medico-social support especially for the underpriveledged. - The medical supervision is undertaken by the family doctor (15% of cases) or by the physician in charge of the home care service with the help of specialists in the department of paediatrics in necessary. - Social workers, nurses and physiotherapists look after social problems, give nursing care and appropriate treatment. - The service has its own secretaries.

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PubMed1977

One third of a million days of care at home, 1959 to 1975.

Although articles on studies of organized home care programs are numerous, reports of long-term effectiveness of these programs are scanty. While government spokesmen appear to advocate more widespread use of alternatives to hospitalization, there has been serious criticism of the efficiency and accomplishments of home care services. A medically oriented home care program in Saskatoon (population, less than 150 000) has grown steadily over a 16-year period and is now serving a daily average of 200 individuals. All patients have required "hospital-like care" at home and most have not ordinarily been sufficiently mobile during their time in the program to attend hospital outpatient services. Many have required "concentrated care" through daily visits of professional health personnel. The program is designed for the physically ill and disabled and is administered by the major teaching hospital in the city, although it provides services to the whole community. Over one third of the patients referred in recent years had been at home. Almost one half of the patients have undergone satisfactory rehabilitation at home. The program has also proven to be an acceptable alternative to long-term institutional care for the permanently seriously disabled, a large number of whom are elderly. The program has been able to operate at considerably less cost to the public than inpatient (hospital or institutional) services would have entailed.

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