Publications by authors named "Maria Grazia Pretti"
Introduction: The District care activities are often presented as number of patients, interventions or home visits. A better description should render more visible the persons and their clinical problems whose outcomes should be monitored.
Aim: To prospectically monitor the outcomes in a sample of home care patients followed for one year.
Unlabelled: Identifying a measure of community nurses' workload is complicated due to the difficulty of capturing and standardizing the nature of community nursing across health care settings.
Aim: Aim of this paper is to validate a workload/caseload nursing score for home care patients.
Methods: Patients of health care districts of Veneto region with at least two home care visits per month and a multi-dimensional and professional assessment were assesses with instruments used in routine care, adapted to the scope (a multidimensional assessment scale for frail elderly, that includes assessment of cognitive function, social support, mobility, functional status, health care needs); a list of patients needs.