Charting a Course for High Quality Care Transitions (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Coleman, Eric A

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136798351
• Artikelnr.: 38271305

Autorenporträt

Eric A. Coleman, MD, MPH, is an Associate Professor of Medicine within the Divisions of Health Care Policy and Research and Geriatric Medicine at the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center. As a board-certified geriatrician, Dr. Coleman maintains direct patient care responsibility for older adults in ambulatory, acute, and subacute care settings. Dr. Coleman's research focuses on enhancing the role of patients and caregivers in improving the quality of their care transitions across acute and post-acute settings; measuring the quality of care transitions from the perspective of patients and caregivers; implementing system-level practice improvement interventions; and using health information technology to promote safe and effective care transitions.

Inhaltsangabe

* 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