Integrated continence services.

Rigby, D

Rigby, D.

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Rigby D; Mendip Primary Care Trust, St Martin's Hospital, Bath. continence@mendip-pct.nhs.uk

Nurs Stand ; 16(8): 46-52; quiz 54, 56, 2001.

Article in En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-11974785

ABSTRACT

ABSTRACT

Nurses have an important role in continence promotion. Deborah Rigby argues that effective continence care should be multidisciplinary and seamless, from the patient's home through primary care and local community services to secondary hospital services.

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Comprehensive Health Care/organization & administration; Continuity of Patient Care/organization & administration; Fecal Incontinence/therapy; Patient Care Team/organization & administration; Urinary Incontinence/therapy; Community Health Services/organization & administration; Fecal Incontinence/economics; Fecal Incontinence/epidemiology; Health Care Costs/statistics & numerical data; Health Promotion/organization & administration; Hospitalization/economics; Humans; Models, Organizational; Nurse's Role; Nursing Assessment; Practice Guidelines as Topic; Primary Health Care/organization & administration; Referral and Consultation/organization & administration; State Medicine/organization & administration; Total Quality Management/organization & administration; United Kingdom/epidemiology; Urinary Incontinence/economics; Urinary Incontinence/epidemiology

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Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Patient Care Team / Urinary Incontinence / Comprehensive Health Care / Continuity of Patient Care / Fecal Incontinence Type of study: Diagnostic_studies / Guideline / Prognostic_studies Limits: Humans Country/Region as subject: Europa Language: En Year: 2001 Type: Article

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