"Eyes in the Home": Addressing Social Complexity in Veterans Affairs Home-Based Primary Care.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Home-Based Primary Care (HBPC) has demonstrated success in decreasing risk of hospitalization and improving patient satisfaction through patient targeting and integrating long-term services and supports. Less is known about how HBPC teams approach social factors.

Objective

Describe HBPC providers' knowledge of social complexity among HBPC patients and how this knowledge impacts care delivery.

Design, setting, and participants

Between 2018 and 2019, we conducted in-person semi-structured interviews with 14 HBPC providers representing nursing, medicine, physical therapy, pharmacy, and psychology, at an urban Veterans Affairs (VA) medical center. We also conducted field observations of 6 HBPC team meetings and 2 home visits.

Approach

We employed an expl

SUBMITTER: Hulen E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8042101 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature