Disease relevance of House Calls

• This study tested the hypothesis that follow-up intervention (by telephone calls and home visit) affects compliance in patients with non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) [1].
• A randomized psychosocial intervention study on the effect of home visits on the well-being of Danish colorectal cancer patients--the INCA Project [2].

Psychiatry related information on House Calls

• The four treatment groups comprised clinic visits, home visits, behavioural group therapy, and dexfenfluramine given for the initial 3 months followed by clinic visits [3].

High impact information on House Calls

• Each nurse was responsible for conducting the home visits in 1 ZIP code area [4].
• Sera were collected by a medical team during home visits [5].
• A diabetes educator provided monthly home visits and weekly phone contact to educate and support the adolescents in setting goals for insulin adjustment, blood glucose monitoring, and target blood glucose range [6].
• Brief biweekly home visits, made as part of a cohort study of diarrhea in young children under age 5 years that was carried out in Salvador, Brazil, in 1998-1999, were used as a low-cost way to collect structured observation data on domestic hygiene behavior [7].
• At age 3, 10,460 children were available for telephone survey for febrile convulsions, and were confirmed by home visit interviews [8].

Biological context of House Calls

• This study examines short-term relationships between doctors' house calls and urban air pollution in Greater Paris for the period 1991-1995 [9].

Anatomical context of House Calls

• DESIGN: Weekly home visits were made during 6 months of surveillance of 14 children on the CIC regimen with a normal upper urinary tract and no reflux (as determined by renal ultrasonography, voiding cystourethrography, and serum creatinine measurement) [10].

Associations of House Calls with chemical compounds

• During one or two daily home visits for 85 days, breath carbon monoxide (CO) and self-reports of daily smoking were obtained [11].
• Dexfenfluramine was most effective in the short term, behavioural therapy useful long term but only in those who remained within the group; home visits offered no advantage [12].
• RESULTS: The group provided allergen encasings was found to be significantly more likely to have used the casings at the home visit, t(22) = 2.77, P < 0.05 [13].
• Clonidine produced more hypotensive effects: more home visits were also required by medical staff [14].
• The concentrations of the metabolite cotinine in infant urine correlated with the dose of nicotine ingested during the home visit (r = 0.84, p < 0.01) [15].

Gene context of House Calls

• In 3-month trials we paid lottery tickets during daily home visits to still-smoking COPD patients for reductions in breath carbon monoxide (CO), a measure of smoke intake [16].
• Supplementing routine care with periodic home visits produced an additional 21 per cent of patients with well-controlled DBP, while involving family members plus visits produced a 17 per cent improvement in the percentage of patients with DBP less than 95mm Hg [17].
• Although HBI conveys benefits incremental to usual care, these data also provide a sound basis for increasing its effectiveness by applying earlier home visits in selected 'high-risk' patients [18].
• Overall mean annual number of consultations with general practitioners, home visits and referrals to secondary care per person were calculated for people with epilepsy, stratified by age, sex and socio-economic status [19].
• DESIGN: Home visits to 26 purposefully selected MS patients with different levels of disability, in both ordinary and sheltered living [20].

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