Good practices in the integral home care visits in chilean primary care

Home care visits are an excellent chance of health attention, with multiple proven benefits, specially, for a group of patients with access difficulties. The main objective of an integral home care visit is to promote self-care in health, offering a person and family centered care, taking in consideration biopsychosocial variables, facilitating the access to healthcare systems and support networks, improving their quality of life and enhancing their recovery and rehabilitation. An integral home care visit, has mainly three stages: planification of the visit with anticipation according to the main complaints; the execution of the visit itself, which seeks to create an initial bond, observe the family and domestic environment, prioritize biopsychosocial problems to achieve changes and try to improve the situation; and at last, to monitor and evaluate the case. The objective of this article is to provide a brief systematization to the primary health care team, so that they can understand the relevance and the process of developing an integral home care visit, added to a synthesis of good practices to achieve an efficient interdisciplinary team work.