Results 11 to 20 of about 81,824 (303)

A qualitative study of urban hospital transitional care

Qualitative Research in Medicine & Healthcare, 2018
This study is part of a mixed methods evaluation of a large urban medical center transitional care practice (NMG-TC). The NMG-TC provides integrated physical and behavioral health care for high need patients referred from the hospital emergency ...
Joe Feinglass, Samuel Wein, Caroline Teter, Christine Schaeffer, Angela Rogers   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Resource Utilization Groups in transitional home care: validating the RUG-III/HC case-mix system in hospital-to-home care programs

BMC Health Services Research, 2023
Background Transitional hospital-to-home care programs support safe and timely transition from acute care settings back into the community. Case-mix systems that classify transitional care clients into groups based on their resource utilization can ...
Clara Bolster-Foucault, Paul Holyoke
doaj   +1 more source

Factors associated with instrumental support in transitional care among older people with chronic disease: a cross-sectional study

BMC Nursing, 2022
Background Instrumental support, which is defined as practical, tangible, and informational assistance extended to patients, is crucial for older people in transition. However, little is known about instrumental support in transitional care.
Min Cui, Jianing Hua, Xiaoliu Shi, Wenwen Yang, Zihan Geng, Xiangyun Qian, Guiling Geng   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Transitions in Care [PDF]

Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2010
I arrive at the hospital in the early morning and soon afterward my colleague hands me two sheets of crisp white paper listing her patients. After her long night on-call, she is ready to relinquish her patients to my care. I spend a few minutes with her, scanning this index of unfamiliar names while she emphasizes details relating to her sickest ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Transition of Care

AMA Journal of Ethics, 2005
Physicians need to take the necessary steps to ensure continuity of care when a patient with cystic fibrosis is transferred from the pediatric unit to adult care. Virtual Mentor is a monthly bioethics journal published by the American Medical Association.
Jonathan, Spahr, Don, Hayes
openaire   +2 more sources

CAN TRANSITIONAL CARE DECREASE READMISSION IN STROKE PATIENTS?

Nurse and Health, 2022
Background: One strategy to reduce the hospital readmission rate of stroke patients is to implement transitional care. Objective: The aim of this study was to identify the application of transitional care to the hospital readmission rate of stroke ...
Yurike Septianingrum, Siti Nurjanah, Nursalam Nursalam   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Patient centred transitional care for patients transferred from intensive care unit to general ward: a mixed methods study

International Journal of Integrated Care, 2019
Transfer from critical care unit to general ward is a difficult time for critically ill patients, their relatives, and healthcare providers. Patient requires centred ICU transitional care. However, this concept is not well understood and studied.
Wentao Zhou
doaj   +1 more source

The effects on rehospitalization rate of transitional care using information communication technology in patients with heart failure: A scoping review

International Journal of Nursing Studies Advances, 2023
Background: The number of people with heart failure is increasing. These patients have a high readmission rate and need ongoing health care and follow-up after hospital discharge.
KaiXin Qi, Tomoko Koike, Youko Yasuda, Satoko Tayama, Itsumi Wati   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Optimizing hospital-to-home transitions for older persons in rural communities: a participatory, multimethod study protocol

Implementation Science Communications, 2021
Background Transitional care involves time-limited interventions focusing on the continuity of care from hospital to home, to optimize patient functioning and management.
Mary T. Fox, Souraya Sidani, Jeffrey I. Butler, Mark W. Skinner, Marilyn Macdonald, Evelyne Durocher, Kathleen F. Hunter, Adrian Wagg, Lori E. Weeks, Ann MacLeod, Sherry Dahlke   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

The effectiveness of a mHealth-based integrated hospital-community-home program for people with type 2 diabetes in transitional care: a protocol for a multicenter pragmatic randomized controlled trial

BMC Primary Care, 2022
Background Diabetes is a progressive condition requiring long-term medical care and self-management. The ineffective transition from hospital to community or home health care may result in poor glycemic control and increase the risk of serious diabetes ...
Wenhui Zhang, Pei Yang, Hongyan Wang, Xinxin Pan, Yanmei Wang   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source