Using the linkage model for integrating evidence into home care nursing practice

Home Healthc Nurse. 2004 Sep;22(9):606-11. doi: 10.1097/00004045-200409000-00007.

Abstract

A home care agency's patient population with heart failure demonstrated improved outcomes after the agency implemented an evidence-based protocol. The model holds promise for use in other agencies working to improve patient outcomes as well as have an impact on decreasing costs.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Community Health Nursing / economics*
  • Community Health Nursing / standards*
  • Cost Savings
  • Cost-Benefit Analysis
  • Evidence-Based Medicine*
  • Female
  • Heart Failure / diagnosis
  • Heart Failure / nursing*
  • Home Care Services / organization & administration*
  • Humans
  • Interinstitutional Relations
  • Male
  • Models, Nursing
  • Nursing Evaluation Research
  • Practice Guidelines as Topic*
  • Professional Competence
  • Sensitivity and Specificity
  • Total Quality Management