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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Transitions of care"”.
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Optimizing transition of care pharmacy services by evaluating medication related readmission risk factors within the heart failure population
… Heart failure (HF) is the leading cause of hospitalization amongst patients 65 years of age and older and represents a significant clinical and economic burden. Previous studies have sought to identify risk factors associated with readmissions in HF patients. However, no studies have …
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Development and Evaluation of Risk Models to Predict Readmission or Death Following Discharge from an Adult General Systems Intensive Care Unit
Transitions of care from intensive care unit (ICU) to ward are high-risk periods of healthcare delivery associated with ICU readmission and post-ICU mortality. Evidence-based processes for transitions are crucial for improving outcomes. Validated prediction models that include consistently …
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Analyzing Patient Characteristics Associated With Hepatitis C Follow-Up Care After Implementation Of A Pharmacy Technician-Driven Service
… untreated. Previous studies have examined models of testing and connecting patients to care for hepatitis C and why patients do not follow-up for hepatitis C care. However, no studies have looked at characteristics of patients not connected to care and characteristics associated with follow-up …
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Quality and continuity of medication management when people with dementia transition between the care home and hospital setting
Improving medication management at transitions of care is a national and international priority. People with dementia, who transition between hospitals and care homes, can be at an increased risk of adverse events, harm and costly re-hospitalisation. There is limited research which examines factors …
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Issues In Patient Information Transmission: Standardizing Home Health Admission
… current and former, complained about lack of information during the intake process within five months period, a uniform "Patient Screening Tool" (Appendix L) was developed to improve the admissions process to this home health agency. Intake staff is responsible for receiving accurate …
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Telehealth-Based Support for Stroke in Australia: Exploring the Role of StrokeLine
In stroke care, transitions of care through the healthcare system are disconnected, often leaving survivors and families feeling abandoned. Telehealth-based services such as helplines specific to chronic health conditions have a valuable role in supporting people to self-manage their ongoing care. …
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Acute-To-Home Care Nursing Handoffs: Distributed Cognition Across Patterns of Knowledge
<p>Timely, explicit, and effective communication of patient information during care transitions is fundamental to safe care. Studies show that handoffs or transfers of patient care from one provider to another are susceptible to communication failures (Riesenberg et al., 2009a). Most studies on …
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Patient Assistance for Virtual Emergency Room Follow Up (PAVER)
… returning to the emergency room within 30 days of a previous visit pose a transitions of care issue for hospitals; with a reported 19.9% of initial ER visits resulting in a revisit. The cost of a revisit has been reported to be 118% the cost of the initial visit and 26% of ED revisits result in …
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From hospital to home: a mixed methods exploration of post-discharge medicines management for older people living with long-term conditions
… are numerous threats to medication safety at care transitions, which are heightened for older people, because they live with multiple long-term conditions as well as polypharmacy, and have frequent hospital admissions. Whilst evidence of the severity and scale of these medicines-related …