ArticleFamily & community health
Staff interaction strategies that optimize delivery of transitional care in a skilled nursing facility: a multiple case study.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Transitional care of older adults in skilled nursing facilities: A systematic review.Geriatric nursing (New York, N.Y.)Pooled it
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- Unique Care Needs of People with Dementia and Their Caregivers during Transitions from Skilled Nursing Facilities to Home and Assisted Living: A Qualitative Study.Journal of the American Medical Directors Association · 2022Article
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- Implementing a Standardized Transition Care Plan in Skilled Nursing Facilities.Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society · 2020Article
- Transitional care in skilled nursing facilities: a multiple case study.BMC health services research · 2016Article
- Restarting the cycle: incidence and predictors of first acute care use after nursing home discharge.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2014Article
- Participation in decision making as a property of complex adaptive systems: developing and testing a measure.Nursing research and practice · 2013Article
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Abstract
After hospitalization, more than 1.5 million older adults each year receive postacute care in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs). Transitional care services, designed to prepare older SNF patients (and their family caregivers) for their transitions from an SNF to home, have rarely been studied. Thus, we conducted a longitudinal, multiple case study of transitional care provided in an SNF to explore the care processes and staff interaction strategies that SNF staff members used to optimize delivery of transitional care. Using qualitative data from 89 interviews, 118 field observations, and 70 chart, or document reviews, we observed that transitional care services were not solely formalized processes, but rather were embedded in the interactions among older adult patients, their family caregivers, and members of interdisciplinary care teams. We found, moreover, that staff member interactions with patients and family caregivers increased the capacity of patient care teams for optimizing patient-centered care, information exchange, and coordination of transitional care.
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