impacts of in-home monitoring based on re-hospitalization rates
Other than specialization in the field of medicine, there has been an evolution in the general medical practice from the originally denoting some medical practices outside the hospital and has become the relationship-based medical practice as primary care. Due to cognitive impairments in some patients, their behaviors affect the well-being of the caregivers and also the resident’s lifestyle. Therefore, to meet the needs of such patients, new approaches have been developed, which is person-centered (Desrosiers et al., 2014). This approach replaces or implements the pharmacotherapy to reduce the behaviors in the patients. It is based on the humanistic idea of health care, and the primary objective is the patient’s health and life experience and capacities, unlike the characterization of the patient based on the disease alone (Desrosiers et al., 2014). This practice requires the caregivers to acquire skills and knowledge about the condition and also adapt in the whole context. It needs the caregivers to be flexible in organization, meals, hygiene, and dressing (Rudebeck, 2019). Additionally, the environmental set up must also be adaptive to the conditions.
The objective of this paper is to investigate the impacts of in-home monitoring based on re-hospitalization rates.
Literature review
Several studies exist on how the use of relationship-based care can help in the prevention of frequent readmissions of patients with Cognitive Heart failure. According to Ziaian and Fonarow (2016), increasing relationship-based efforts on such patients have highly reduced a 30-day re-hospitalization as required. When home-based caregivers provide proper strategies to increase the support of such patients at discharge, improved communication, and close out-patient follow up lowers the risks of readmission (Albert et al., 2014). Although there are numerous post-discharge activities to take care of HF patients, they are not slowing the rate of re-hospitalization.
However, several other pieces of research support that through the increased relationship-based care on the HF patients, a significant improvement has been made to reduce the rates of readmissions. Evidently, through specialized relationship-based care, the patients can adapt certain beneficial physical fitness activities in a friendly manner hence improve their breathing systems (Rudebeck, 2019).