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Charting a Course for High Quality Care Transitions (Paperback)
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Charting a Course for High Quality Care Transitions (Paperback)
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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.
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