TY  - JOUR
T1  - IS reducing home health a step in the right direction?—reply
AU  - Leff B, Boyd C, Reider L, et al
Y1  - 2011/09/26
N1  - 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.431
JO  - Archives of Internal Medicine
SP  - 1597
EP  - 1598
VL  - 171
IS  - 17
N2  - 
We appreciate the question posed by Suter et al. However, for a health care delivery model to be effective it must link a focused, relevant intervention to its optimally targeted patient population to bring about its intended outcome. Guided care is a multifaceted primary care–based intervention delivered in an ambulatory practice. Though guided care includes home-based assessment, it was not designed to compete with or supplant home health care, nor was its target population home-bound older adults. Reduction of home health care was neither an intended nor expected outcome of guided care.

SN  - 0003-9926
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.431
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2011.431
ER  -