The Legal, Regulatory, and Policy Challenges of Infection Control in Home Health Care, 2008

摘要: The practice implications of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services hospital payment policy change are likely to influence relationships between home health care agencies and their referring/receiving hospitals. Maintaining infection control measures can be difficult in environment, which was not designed provision where family members, friends, pets present. In addition changes, there have been epidemiologic with increasing recognition multidrug resistant organisms virulence. purpose this article is identify scope changes that might expected response activities undertake response. Increased calls transparency, accountability, high-quality care, along threats denied reimbursement, will force across entire continuum care.