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Improving patient outcomes with better care transitions: The role for home health
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Patients, particularly the old and frail, are especially vulnerable at the time of hospital discharge. Fragmentation of care, characterized by miscommunications and lack of follow-up, can lead to oversights in diagnosis and management. The frequent result is avoidable rehospitalization. Amedisys, a home health and hospice organization, created and tested a care transitions initiative for its impact on patients' quality of life and avoidable rehospitalizations. The initiative was carried out in three academic institutions with 12 months of observation. The results suggested reduced hospital readmissions and a critical role for the home health industry in improving patient outcomes and reducing costs.
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“Post-discharge follow-up was linked to carers understanding of condition management, and confidence to support the patient’s needs [28, 44, 53–55, 58–60, 62–65].”
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“Some systems aimed to improve patient safety during transitions by assigning HCPs to facilitate care coordination. This included acting as a single point of contact in the initial post-discharge period, to improve communication, reduce confusion and subsequently prevent avoidable rehospitalisation, however evidence of their effectiveness was limited (CMOC23) [53, 55, 60].”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Fleming, M. O., & Haney, T. T.
- Venue
- Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
- Publisher
- Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
- Published
- 2013-01
- Volume
- 80
- Issue
- 1 e-suppl 1
- Pages
- e-S2-e-S6
- ISSN
- 0891-1150 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-2869
- OpenAlex
- W2326434799
- Cited by
- 22
- References
- 6
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 5 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 1
- FWCI
- 2.96
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Nursing › Leadership and Management › Hospital Admissions and Outcomes
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Geriatrics and Gerontology › Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Geriatrics and Gerontology › Pharmaceutical Practices and Patient Outcomes
- Keywords
- care transitions, hospital discharge, home health care, care fragmentation, patient follow-up, quality of life, patient outcomes, health care costs
- MeSH terms
- Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Continuity of Patient Care, Dementia, Emergency Service, Hospital, Female, Medicare, Heart Failure, Home Care Services, Humans, Interprofessional Relations, Life Expectancy, Patient Discharge, Patient Education as Topic, Patient Readmission, Population Dynamics, United States, Frail Elderly, Patient-Centered Care
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