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Nursing Interventions for Patients with Chronic Conditions by Liv Merete Holm Frich is a Health Professions article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Nursing Interventions for Patients with Chronic Conditions about?
**Background.** Maintaining independence in older people or restoring and encouraging self‐management in those with chronic conditions are ways of increasing health‐related quality of life and at the same time may achieve cost savings. Nurses often carry out these types of interventions in follow‐up home visits. **Aims.** To describe nursing interventions during home visits and their effects on people suffering from a range of chronic conditions. **Method.** A structured descriptive review was carried out using the Medline, Embase, PsycINFO, CINAHL and Cochrane databases and the terms chronic or diabetic or arthrit\* or pain and randomi\* and [(nurs\* and care) or (nurs\* and interventions)]. **Findings.** In older people the best outcomes are reached if the target population is ‘the younger‐old’, or if intervention is tailored to elders who have stated health problems. The effect depends on the duration of the follow‐up period, number of follow‐up visits and personality of the nurse. Follow‐up nursing interventions for patients with diabetes can improve psychosocial and health outcomes. Education of health providers and amount of time spent with patients seem to be important for p
Who reads Nursing Interventions for Patients with Chronic Conditions?
It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Health Professions.
- Author
- Liv Merete Holm Frich
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (Blackwell Publishing); Blackwell Publishing Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 0309-2402)
- Published
- 2003
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Health Professions (Health Sciences)