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7 Factors associated with home visit provision included being an FP, older physician age, male sex, and being in rural, especially solo, practice. 6 An American study of 22 186 physicians providing primary care for Medicare beneficiaries found that only 5% provided home visits. 5 In addition to a low response rate (19%), the survey was limited in not collecting data on the frequency of home visits, and the overall number of visits was assumed to be low. The 2010 National Physician Survey of Canadian FPs found that 42% of respondents reported doing home visits. 1, 2 Dedicated programs exist in some jurisdictions but are not widely available across Canada.Īlthough home visit prevalence is assumed to be waning, 3, 4 little is known about how many home visits are done by primary care providers (ie, FPs and nurse practitioners ) outside of dedicated home visit services. Home visits (also known as housecalls or domiciliary visits) by primary care providers are a vital service for vulnerable populations, including frail and house-bound older adults.

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Les médecins de famille ruraux avaient fait plus de visites à domicile (nombre médian = 29 ) que leurs homologues urbains (nombre médian = 14 ) ( p <, 001). Les hommes MF avaient facturé un plus grand nombre de visites à domicile (nombre médian = 21 visites) que les femmes MF (nombre médian = 12 ) ( p <, 001). Parmi les MF qui avaient facturé des visites à domicile durant l’année à l’étude, le nombre médian de visites à domicile (intervalle interquartile ) s’élevait à 16 (2 à 42) l’intervalle était de 1 à 1265.

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Dans les analyses multivariables, l’âge plus avancé des MF, l’âge plus avancé des patients, l’emplacement rural de la pratique et le sexe masculin des MF étaient tous indépendamment associés à la prestation des visites à domicile et au nombre de ces visites (tous p <, 0001). Tant dans les données du sondage que dans celles de la facturation, les MF plus âgés étaient plus enclins à faire des visites à domicile ( p <, 01).

Adults with common problems such as a cough, sore throat, influenza, back pain and abdominal pain are also readily transported by car to a doctor’s premises.Dans l’ensemble, 84,4 % des MF qui ont répondu au sondage ont signalé qu’ils faisaient des visites à domicile.

It’s is not a doctor’s duty to arrange such transport. These children may not be fit to travel by bus or to walk, but car transport is available from friends, relatives or taxi firms.

It is not necessarily harmful to take a child with a fever outside.

Common symptoms of childhood: fevers, cold, cough, earache, headache, diarrhoea/vomiting and most cases of abdominal pain.

In most of these cases a visit would not be an appropriate use of GP time: Home visits are the best way of giving a medical opinion in cases involving: Their clinical judgement presides, based on the individual case presented. GPs have locally agreed guidelines to help them decide if a home visit is appropriate. travel to a treatment centre would cause deterioration in the patient’s medical condition or unacceptable discomfort.The GP or nurse who provides their telephone consultation feels that they need to be seen and.Patients will be invited to attend a treatment centre by a GP or nurse who has provided their telephone consultation and feels that they need to be seen.