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Charting a Course for High Quality Care Transitions
Eric A. Coleman
出版
Routledge
, 2007
主題
Medical / General
Medical / Allied Health Services / General
Medical / Clinical Medicine
Medical / Geriatrics
Medical / Health Care Delivery
Medical / Home Care
Medical / Nursing / Gerontology
Medical / Nursing Home Care
Social Science / Methodology
Social Science / Social Work
Technology & Engineering / Quality Control
ISBN
0789037424
9780789037428
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=pRiHPeqQulIC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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Learn how to ensure quality and safety for vulnerable older adults
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.
Lowering the inherent risks for adverse events when moving patients can be challenging. Numerous unforeseen variables such as possible mismanagement of medication or staff shortages can often jeopardize patient safety. Charting a Course for High Quality Care Transitions offers practical approaches to address several of the main challenges encountered by health professionals. This book focuses on various ways to provide the highest quality patient-centered care through advancements in research, practice, and data measurement. This informative text is extensively referenced and contains numerous tables to clarify and illustrate important data.
Topics in Charting a Course for High Quality Care Transitions include:
a semantic framework for overcoming quality improvement issues stemming from inconsistent use of terms
a tool for home health agencies to identify home health care patients at risk for hospital readmission
medical and social factors that contribute to poor quality care transitions
a successful Advanced Practice Nurse transitional care model that can improve outcomes to cognitively impaired older adults
unrecognized needs of older adults living in residential care facilities
patient-centered performance measurement
early results of the Reducing Acute Care Hospitalization National Demonstration Collaborative
gaps in research that need to be addressed in the future
Charting a Course for High Quality Care Transitions is an important resource for home care professionals, hospital discharge planners, public health nurses, geriatric health services researchers, and health care professionals of all types.