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Implications of Transitional Care Interventions on Hospital Readmissions in Patients With Destination Therapy Left Ventricular Assist Devices [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Background: The rising number of patients with a left ventricular assist device (LVAD) require care management to successfully transition home after implantation. These patients and their families need to manage their heart failure, and the complexities
Hirschman, Karen   +3 more
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A qualitative study of urban hospital transitional care

open access: yesQualitative 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   +4 more
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Resource Utilization Groups in transitional home care: validating the RUG-III/HC case-mix system in hospital-to-home care programs

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

open access: yesBMC 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   +6 more
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Transitions in Care [PDF]

open access: yesJournal 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

open access: yesAMA 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
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CAN TRANSITIONAL CARE DECREASE READMISSION IN STROKE PATIENTS?

open access: yesNurse 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   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Littoral Rights Under the Takings Doctrine: The Clash Between the Ius Naturale And Stop The Beach Renourishment [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Background. Organizing and performing patient transfers in the continuum of care is part of the work of nurses and other staff of a multiprofessional healthcare team.
Britt Bäckström, Marie Häggström
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Patient centred transitional care for patients transferred from intensive care unit to general ward: a mixed methods study

open access: yesInternational 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

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