Charting a Course for High Quality Care Transitions

ISBN-13: 9780789037428 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 150 str.

Eric A. Coleman

Opis

Transitional care is crucial to older adults with complex care needs who are moving between different locations or different levels of care. Charting a Course for High Quality Care Transitions addresses this problem by providing leading experts and leaders in the field discussing practical strategies that ensure care quality and safety for transitioning vulnerable older adults. This helpful resource comprehensively discusses current research, quality improvement, risk targeting, risk identification, patterns of care, care coordination, and performance assessment. This informative text is extensively referenced and contains numerous tables to clarify and illustrate important data.

Spis treści

• Preface
• Introduction (Marian Essey)
• Discharge Planning, Transitional Care, Coordination of Care, and Continuity of Care: Clarifying the Use and Terms from the Hospital Perspective (Diane E. Holland and Marcelline R. Harris)
• Development and Testing of an Analytic Model to Identify Home Healthcare Patients at Risk for a Hospitalization Within the First 60 Days of Care (Robert J. Rosati and Liping Huang)
• Bouncing-Back: Rehospitalization in Patients with Complicated Transitions in the First Thirty Days After Hospital Discharge for Acute Stroke (Amy J. H. Kind, Maureen A. Smith, Nancy Pandhi, Jennifer R. Frytak, and Michael D. Finch)
• Care Coordination for Cognitively Impaired Older Adults and Their Caregivers (Mary D. Naylor, Karen B. Hirschman, Kathryn H. Bowles, M. Brian Bixby, JoAnne Konick-McMahan, and Caroline Stephens)
• Patterns of Emergency Care Use in Residential Care Settings: Opportunities to Improve Quality of Transitional Care in the Elderly (Pamela Parsons and Peter A. Boling)
• The Central Role of Performance Measurement in Improving the Quality of Transitional Care (Eric A. Coleman, Carla Parry, Sandra A. Chalmers, Amita Chugh, and Eldon Mahoney)
• ReACH National Demonstration Collaborative: Early Results of Implementation (Patricia Simino Boyce and Penny Hollander Feldman)
• A Research and Policy Agenda for Transitions from Nursing Homes to Home (Peter A. Boling and Pamela Parsons)
• Index
• Reference Notes Included