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1	Impact of Post-Discharge Care Setting Following Inpatient Hospitalization on Hospital Revisits in a Medicare Population Perera, K. Prasadini N. January 2013 (has links) Background: In the current policy environment hospital readmissions are receiving considerable attention due to a provision in the Affordable Care Act (2010), that penalize hospitals through reduced payments for excess readmissions (the hospital readmissions reduction program (HRRP)). This program primarily holds hospitals accountable, although a multitude of factors not directly in control of hospitals can be contributory to readmissions. Of these, whether or not patients are discharged to an appropriate post-discharge care setting can be one contributory factor, and, this study evaluated the association between post-discharge care setting and hospital revisits. Methods: A retrospective analysis of the 2008 Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) was conducted. Three post-discharge care settings were evaluated: 1) routine discharge to home; 2) home with home healthcare; and 3) skilled nursing facility. Two outcomes were assessed: 1) 30-day all-cause hospital readmissions; and 2) 30-day all-cause hospital revisits (combination of inpatient admissions and emergency department visits). Analyses were carried out among patients with hospitalizations for any reason, as well as among a subgroup that were hospitalized for one of seven priority conditions identified in the HRRP. Weighted logistic regression analyses that incorporated information on the complex survey design were conducted. Results: Of the MCBS sample representing 46,048,125 Medicare beneficiaries (unweighted N=11,723), 4.9 percent (N= 2,293,629; unweighted N=670) contributed at least one index hospitalization to the analysis. Among hospitalization for any reason, 30-day all-cause hospital readmissions and revisits was 12.3 percent and 17.8 percent, respectively. The subgroup consisted of 31.8 percent of hospitalizations for any reason (N=730,174; unweighted N=216). Readmissions and revisits in the subgroup were 17.8 percent, and 24.5 percent, respectively. Post-discharge care setting was not significantly associated with either readmissions (P=0.966) or revisits (P=0.728) for hospitalizations for any reason. Findings for the subgroup were similar with no significant association between post-discharge care setting with either readmissions (P=0.850) or revisits (P=0.483). Conclusion: Absence of a difference in readmissions and revisits by post-discharge care setting suggests that the choice of discharge status might be appropriate following an inpatient admission. However, further research with larger sample sizes for conditions in the subgroup both together and separately is recommended. post-acute care Readmissions Pharmaceutical Sciences Medicare
2	Postacute Care for Older People in Community Hospitals: A Multicentre Randomised, Controlled Trial Young, J., Green, J.R., Forster, A., Small, Neil A., Lowson, K., Bogle, S., George, J., Heseltine, D., Jayasuriya, T., Rowe, J. January 2007 (has links) No / OBJECTIVES: To compare the effects of community hospital care on independence for older people needing rehabilitation with that of general hospital care. DESIGN: Randomized, controlled trial. SETTING: Seven community hospitals and five general hospitals in the midlands and north of England. PARTICIPANTS: Four hundred ninety patients needing rehabilitation after hospital admission with an acute illness. INTERVENTION: Multidisciplinary team care for older people in community hospitals. MEASUREMENTS: The primary outcome was the Nottingham extended activities of daily living scale (NEADL); secondary outcomes were the Barthel Index, Nottingham Health Profile, Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, mortality, discharge destination, 6-month residence status, and satisfaction with services. RESULTS: Loss of independence at 6 months was significantly less likely in the community hospital group (mean adjusted NEADL change score group difference 3.27; 95% confidence interval 0.26–6.28; P=.03). The results for the secondary outcome measures were similar for the two groups. CONCLUSION: Postacute community hospital rehabilitation care for older people is associated with greater independence. Community hospital Elderly people Post-acute care Rehabilitation Multicenter randomized trial
3	Post-acute rehabilitation care for older people in community hospitals and general hospitals - Philosophies of care and patients' and caregivers' reported experiences: a qualitative study Small, Neil A., Green, J.R., Spink, Joanna, Forster, A., Young, J. January 2009 (has links) No / Purpose. This article contrasts community hospital and general hospital philosophies of care and examines how they relate to patients' and caregivers' experiences. Methods. Semi-structured interviews with 42 staff were used to produce care setting vignettes in six community hospitals and four general hospitals in the midlands and north of England. The vignettes were used with 26 patients and 10 caregivers in semi-structured interviews. Results. Community hospital and general hospital staff identified shared understandings of requirements for post-acute rehabilitation care for older people. Distinctive features were: general hospital – medical efficiency, helping patients get better, high standard of care, need for stimulation; community hospital – homelike setting, quiet, calm ambience, good views, orientated to elderly people, encouragement of social interaction, involvement of relatives in care. In the main there was symmetry between staff aspirations and patients' experience. However some concepts used and assumptions made by staff were not recognised by patients. These were characteristically reframed in patients' answers as if they were discussing subjective dimensions of care. Conclusions. There was patient and caregiver preference for the homelike environment of community hospitals. In care of older people, where the focus is rehabilitation, patient preferences are particularly pertinent and should be considered alongside clinical outcomes and cost-effectiveness. Community hospital Elderly people Post-acute care Rehabilitation Multi-centre Qualitative methods
4	Moving Patients across Organizations: Exploring the Antecedents of Effective and Efficient Referral Processes Saryeddine, Tina 31 August 2011 (has links) The purpose of this study was to explore what makes the interorganizational referral process effective and efficient from the perspectives of acute care referral senders and post acute care referral receivers. The referral process was conceptualized as the classic communication model involving a sender, receiver, information, a communication channel and contextual factors such as formalization and relationships. The hypotheses proposed that the relationships between each of the variables information usefulness, communication channel richness, and degree of formalization affected each of perceived referral process effectiveness and efficiency through the variable ‘relational coordination’. Key informants who either sent referrals from acute care settings or who received them in post acute care inpatient settings were asked to discuss each variable. These results were combined with those of a literature review to develop questionnaires containing a scale with acceptable Chronbach alpha for each. Surveys were disseminated through networks and associations involved in acute and post acute stroke and hip fracture care and in discharge planning and Long Term Care. Useable responses included 114 surveys from referral senders and 171 from referral recipients. Baron and Kenny’s four step test for mediation was used to test the hypotheses. For senders, each of channel richness (adjR2 = 10% p= 0.001), information usefulness (adjR2 = 16% p= 0.000), and formalization (adjR2 = 10% p= 0.000) were significantly related to perceived effectiveness. For channel richness, the relationship with perceived effectiveness was partially mediated by relational coordination (adjR2 = 19% p= 0.001). This was also the case for the relationship between information usefulness and perceived effectiveness (adjR2 = 0.20; p=000). For receivers, channel richness is related to perceived effectiveness through relational coordination (adjR2 = 12% p= 0.003). This was also the case for information usefulness (adjR2 = 13% p= 0.000). In neither group were any of the variables significantly related to efficiency. We may conclude that in the referral process, channel richness and information usefulness are related to perceived effectiveness for both senders and receivers. These may provide an important return on investment if chosen as an areas for referral process improvement, if accompanied by concurrent investments in relational coordination. Communication Referral process Interorganizational Coordination Information Relational coordination Transitions Continuum of care Long term care Acute care Post acute care Referral Decision making Organizations Effectiveness Performance 0769 0454 0703
5	Moving Patients across Organizations: Exploring the Antecedents of Effective and Efficient Referral Processes Saryeddine, Tina 31 August 2011 (has links) The purpose of this study was to explore what makes the interorganizational referral process effective and efficient from the perspectives of acute care referral senders and post acute care referral receivers. The referral process was conceptualized as the classic communication model involving a sender, receiver, information, a communication channel and contextual factors such as formalization and relationships. The hypotheses proposed that the relationships between each of the variables information usefulness, communication channel richness, and degree of formalization affected each of perceived referral process effectiveness and efficiency through the variable ‘relational coordination’. Key informants who either sent referrals from acute care settings or who received them in post acute care inpatient settings were asked to discuss each variable. These results were combined with those of a literature review to develop questionnaires containing a scale with acceptable Chronbach alpha for each. Surveys were disseminated through networks and associations involved in acute and post acute stroke and hip fracture care and in discharge planning and Long Term Care. Useable responses included 114 surveys from referral senders and 171 from referral recipients. Baron and Kenny’s four step test for mediation was used to test the hypotheses. For senders, each of channel richness (adjR2 = 10% p= 0.001), information usefulness (adjR2 = 16% p= 0.000), and formalization (adjR2 = 10% p= 0.000) were significantly related to perceived effectiveness. For channel richness, the relationship with perceived effectiveness was partially mediated by relational coordination (adjR2 = 19% p= 0.001). This was also the case for the relationship between information usefulness and perceived effectiveness (adjR2 = 0.20; p=000). For receivers, channel richness is related to perceived effectiveness through relational coordination (adjR2 = 12% p= 0.003). This was also the case for information usefulness (adjR2 = 13% p= 0.000). In neither group were any of the variables significantly related to efficiency. We may conclude that in the referral process, channel richness and information usefulness are related to perceived effectiveness for both senders and receivers. These may provide an important return on investment if chosen as an areas for referral process improvement, if accompanied by concurrent investments in relational coordination. Communication Referral process Interorganizational Coordination Information Relational coordination Transitions Continuum of care Long term care Acute care Post acute care Referral Decision making Organizations Effectiveness Performance 0769 0454 0703
6	Specifika komunikace se seniory v kontextu sociálně - zdravotní péče / Specifics of communication with seniors in contect social - health care Vargová, Jana January 2017 (has links) Annotation: The purpose of this Master's thesis is to describe objectively topic of medical social workers' communication in centers of post-acute care, to highlight importance and difficulty of social work with senior citizens and to propose eventual changes leading to eventual communication improvement. Social work here is complicated because senior citizens are often lonely or may have problematic family relationships or may suffer from dementia and quite often are polymorbid patients. For the thesis were used statistics from The Centre of Postacute Care - Motol University Hospital, then method of questionnaire realized with medical social workers from centers of post-acute care in Czech Republic, and method of structured interview with patients in Center of Postacute Care - Motol University Hospital.
7	The Role of Organizational Culture on Patient Discharge Planning Fredericks, Melanie Rosanna 18 November 2021 (has links) No description available. Behavioral Psychology Behaviorial Sciences Business Administration Business Education Clinical Psychology Cognitive Psychology Cultural Resources Management Demography Ethics Ethnic Studies Gerontology Health Health Care Health Care Management Health Education Health Sciences Labor Relations Law Legal Studies Literacy Management Medical Ethics Mental Health Minority and Ethnic Groups Multicultural Education Multilingual Education Operations Research Organizational Behavior Personal Relationships Personality Personality Psychology Philosophy Public Administration Public Health Public Health Education Public Policy Rehabilitation Social Psychology Social Research

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