Exploring Reasons for Delayed Start-of-Care Nursing Visits in Home Health Care: Algorithm Development and Data Science Study

• Main Authors: Maryam Zolnoori (Author), Jiyoun Song (Author), Margaret V McDonald (Author), Yolanda Barrón (Author), Kenrick Cato (Author), Paulina Sockolow (Author), Sridevi Sridharan (Author), Nicole Onorato (Author), Kathryn H Bowles (Author), Maxim Topaz (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: JMIR Publications, 2021-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BackgroundDelayed start-of-care nursing visits in home health care (HHC) can result in negative outcomes, such as hospitalization. No previous studies have investigated why start-of-care HHC nursing visits are delayed, in part because most reasons for delayed visits are documented in free-text HHC n...