Medical Management of the Home Care Patient

Your guide to better continuity of care, the Medical Management of the Home Care Patient: Guidelines for Physicians is a collaboration of the AMA and AAHCP. This valuable resource contains everything you want to know about:

• The physician's role in home care
• The physician-patient-caregiver relationship
• Paying for home care
• Implementation and oversight of the home care plan
• Choosing a home care agency
• Case management: Making use of community resources
• Special populations
• Home hospice care
• Technology
• Medical ethics
• A patient's rights and responsibilities
• Detection and treatment of abuse in home care
• Rules and regulations

Manage your patients' home-based care. Order the new guide today!

To print a single copy from the AMA web site, click here, or go to http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/4642.html and you will find the guidelines listed on the right side of the screen.

Individual hard copies may be ordered from the AAHCP for $18 per copy, including shipping and handling. We can only process orders of fewer than 10 copies. If you would like to order an individual hard copy, click here. Orders containing 10 or more copies must be placed directly through the AMA website, as indicated below.

Bulk copies (10 per package) can be ordered directly from the AMA by clicking here.