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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"care transitions"”.
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Health Care Transitions in Sickle Cell Disease
<p>Over the past three decades, advances in the care for children with sickle cell disease (SCD) have increased their life expectancy and necessitated their transition to adult health care. However, there is a limited understating of health care transition in SCD and the impact it has on outcomes …
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Post-acute care transitions for adults with serious mental illness
Approximately 20% of traditional Medicare beneficiaries experience a hospital to SNF transition each year. Despite their frequent occurrence, transitions across levels and locations of care are incredibly error prone, poorly coordinated and communicated, and often result in cyclical patterns of …
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EMS to Trauma Care Transitions: An Investigation of Patient and Handoff Outcomes
… ground ambulance patients. One aspect of patient care that has yet to be investigated but is previously hypothesized to be a factor in contributing to better patient health outcomes is that of the emergency medical service to emergency department trauma center handoff where information transfer …
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Medication Nonadherence, Health Care Utilization, and SafeMed Care Transitions Model Impact in Super-Utilizers
… place a substantial burden on the U.S. healthcare system and have become the focus of policy initiatives aimed at reducing their disproportionate inpatient and ED use. Medication management is critical for these patients since nonadherence to essential chronic medications is associated with …
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An enterprise architecture evaluation of the Improving Massachusetts Post-Acute Care Transitions (IMPACT) Program
The Post-Acute Care Transfer process is a critical area affecting the quality and safety of patient health care in the US'. While many Post-Acute Care (PAC) centers are Electronic Health Record (EHR) -enabled, a large majority of these centers, such as nursing home and home care, are not set up for …
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Optimisation of care transitions: Understanding coping strategies of South Asian family carers of a relative with advanced dementia
… be a similar increase in the number of family carers. Whilst policy and research have discussed issues pertaining to awareness and access issues for minoritised ethnic communities, there remains an under-representation of these communities in services. A lack of understanding on the part of …
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An observational study of care transitions of pediatric patients: modeling the work system and team communication in handoffs
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-11 without embargo terms
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Text Reminders in Pyrexial Paediatric Patients (TRIPPP): a randomized controlled pilot study
Transitions in care – including at the point of discharge from a hospital - may potentially place patients in a position of increased risk and vulnerability.(1) This is recognised to be of particular concern for paediatric patients, compounded by the fact that no widely accepted or used standards …
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Public-private partnerships: an evaluation of propositions for successful community coalitions
… rates and improving coordination of patient care). Method: A survey was conducted and included a variety of coalition building propositions to measure coalition members' perceptions of coalition success. The survey questions related to leadership, communication and formal rules, structures …
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Using information technology to exchange health information among healthcare providers : measuring usage and understanding value
… exchange of health information among healthcare institutions - has been projected to hold enormous promise as an antidote to the fragmented healthcare delivery system in the United States. After decades of mostly failed attempts, we still do not know how to make HIE work. This thesis is the …
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Factors Associated with 30-day Hospital Readmissions Among Older Adults with Dementia
… every 20 years. The costs of treatment and care for older adults with dementia are expected to rise since patients often require frequent hospitalizations to treat symptoms related to comorbid conditions. The increased frequency of hospitalization results in more care transitions that create …
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Promoting Smooth School Transitions for Children in Foster Care
<p>Children in foster care move two times per year on average. School records are not always transferred in a timely manner, which leads to a lack of services. Schools often are not aware of the legal issues surrounding foster care, such as who has legal rights to sign field trip permission slips …
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Transitioning Adolescents with Type I Diabetes to Adult Care
<p>Background: Care transitions, defined as hospital discharge or movement from one healthcare setting to another, are currently a major concern for healthcare providers and policy makers alike. These care transitions are occurring in the context of increasingly fragmented care and have been known …
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Medicines Reconciliation: Roles and Process. An examination of the medicines reconciliation process and the involvement of patients and healthcare professionals across a regional healthcare economy, within the United Kingdom.
Medication safety and improving communication at care transitions are an international priority. There is vast evidence on the scale of error associated with medicines reconciliation and some evidence of successful interventions to improve reconciliation. However, there is insufficient evidence on …
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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 …
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Hospital-to-home care transition for dementia patients and family caregivers : discharge planning and decision-making experience of family caregivers
Hospital-to-home transitions for persons living with dementia (PLWD) are critical periods that often expose family caregivers (FCGs) to significant decisional, informational, and emotional challenges. This dissertation explored the discharge planning and decision-making experiences of culturally …
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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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An Analytics Approach To Reducing Hospital Readmission
… sources of waste in the Unites States health care systems is preventable hospital readmission. About 2.3 million Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries are re-hospitalized within 30 days after discharge which incurs an annual cost of $17 billion. However, it is reported by the Medicare Payment …
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Exploring Camper Perspectives on Health Care Transition Programming Offered Through Medical Specialty Camps
Planned health care transition from pediatric to adult health care is necessary for adolescents and young adults with chronic diagnoses to have positive health outcomes. Medical specialty camps offer an opportunity for campers to connect with others who have similar conditions, learn about their …
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Improving Pain Management in the Cardiac Procedure Unit
… Procedure Unit (CPU) specializes in the care of patients who are undergoing various cardiac procedures. The day-to-day operations are composed of Registered Nurses (RNs), Patient Care Technicians (PCTs), Unit Assistant (UA), and Nurse Practitioners (NPs) with an oversight from the Medical …
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