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| Charting a course for high quality care transitions | | Author(s) | Eric A Coleman |
| Journal title | Home Health Care Services Quarterly, vol 26, nos 4, 2007 |
| Pages | 131 pp (whole issue) |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Admission [hospitals] ; Discharge [hospitals] ; Medical care ; Management [care] ; Quality ; Informal care ; Transitional phase ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | This special volume of Home Health Care Services Quarterly is designed to inform practitioners, researchers, policy-makers and organisations concerned with quality improvement on effective strategies for ensuring quality and safety in transferring older people with complex care needs between different care settings. Examples of care transitions in the US are discussed, and include: admission to hospital; discharge planning; re-admission to hospital (for example following acute stroke); emergency care use in residential settings; and even transitions from nursing home to home. Another situation relevant to care transitions discussed is care co-ordination for cognitively impaired older people and their caregivers. Two articles consider evaluative aspects: the central role of performance measuring in improving the quality of transitional care; and a review on early results of implementation of the Reducing Acute Care Hospitalization (ReACH) National Demonstration Collaborative. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-071126209 A |
| Classmark | LD:QKH: LD:QKJ: LK: QA: 59: P6: 4MT: 7T |
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