Quality of Care Transitions
Better Together.Patients transitioning between healthcare settings or home are especially vulnerable. Effective communication is essential to maintain patient safety and reduce adverse events.
Shifting care between healthcare facilities or to the patient and their family or caregivers is difficult, especially for those managing complex health conditions and multiple medications.
- One study estimates that 80% of serious medical errors involve miscommunication during the hand-off between medical providers.
- Nearly half of all American adults—90 million people—have difficulty understanding and acting upon health information.
- People affected by multiple chronic conditions are at risk of early mortality, poor functional status, and hospitalization. They also face significant out-of-pocket expenses for healthcare and prescription drugs.
Continual communication among the patient, their providers and their caregivers ensures individual medical needs, health status, and personal values are addressed, especially during care transitions. Promoting shared decision making methods, hospital discharge protocols and risk assessments would ensure patient safety and improve the overall patient experience.
Quality Care Transition News
News
Best Practice Brief: Valuing Diversity at Monument Health I May 24, 2022
Great Plains QIN Webinar: Palliative Care in the Dakotas | May 17, 2022
Best Practice Briefs: Reducing Health Disparities | May 2022
Recognizing Disparity to Advance Health Equity | April 26 Webinar
Access to Care Resulting in Hospitalization
Avoidable Emergency Department Visits and Observation Stays
Health Literacy
Hospital Admissions/Readmissions
Connecting the Dots – Antibiotic Stewardship, Immunization, Sepsis
BOOST-Implementation Guide to Improve Care Transitions
Re-Engineered Discharge (RED) Toolkit
RHIhub-Rural Care Coordination Toolkit
Fall Prevention in Hospitals Training Program
Preventing Falls in Hospitals: A Toolkit for Improving Quality of Care
Pressure Injury Prevention in Hospitals Training Program
Preventing Pressure Ulcers in Hospitals
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Great Plains Quality Care Coalition
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