ReviewBMJ quality & safety2013
Defining quality outcomes for complex-care patients transitioning across the continuum using a structured panel process.
Review in BMJ quality & safety, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
12 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Quality Indicators for High-Need Patients: a Systematic Review.Journal of general internal medicine · 2022Pooled it
- [Rapid sequence induction and intubation in patients with risk of aspiration : Recommendations for action for practical management of anesthesia].Der Anaesthesist · 2018Pooled it
- Emergency Department Navigator Interventions and Outcome Measures: A Scoping Review.International journal of older people nursing · 2025Article
- "Why Do We Always Have to Focus on the Bad": A Strengths-Based Approach to Identify the Positive Aspects of Care From the Perspective of Older Adults Using a Secondary Qualitative Analysis.Journal of patient experience · 2023Article
- An Environmental Scan of Ambulatory Care Quality Indicators for Patients With Advanced Kidney Disease Currently Used in Canada.Canadian journal of kidney health and disease · 2021Article
- An Environmental Scan and Evaluation of Quality Indicators Across Canadian Kidney Transplant Centers.Canadian journal of kidney health and disease · 2021Article
- Inter-Professional Collaboration and Patient Mortality: Protocol for a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2020Article
- An Environmental Scan and Evaluation of Home Dialysis Quality Indicators Currently Used in Canada.Canadian journal of kidney health and disease · 2020Article
- An Environmental Scan of Canadian Quality Metrics for Patients on In-Center Hemodialysis.Canadian journal of kidney health and disease · 2020Article
- Feasibility of a hemodialysis safety checklist for nurses and patients: a quality improvement study.Clinical kidney journal · 2016Article
- Design and implementation of the Americas Hernia Society Quality Collaborative (AHSQC): improving value in hernia care.Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery · 2016Article
- Development of a hemodialysis safety checklist using a structured panel process.Canadian journal of kidney health and disease · 2015Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors.
Funding
Abstract
backgroundNo standardised set of quality measures associated with transitioning complex-care patients across the various healthcare settings and home exists. In this context, a structured panel process was used to define quality measures for care transitions involving complex-care patients across healthcare settings.
methodsA modified Delphi consensus technique based on the RAND method was used to develop measures of quality care transitions across the continuum of care. Specific stages included a literature review, individual rating of each measure by each of the panelists (n=11), a face-to-face consensus meeting, and final ranking by the panelists.
resultsThe literature review produced an initial set of 119 measures. To advance to rounds 1 and 2, an aggregate rating of >75% of the measure was required. This analysis yielded 30/119 measures in round 1 and 11/30 measures in round 2. The final round of scoring yielded the following top five measures: (1) readmission rates within 30 days, (2) primary care visit within 7 days postdischarge for high-risk patients, (3) medication reconciliation completed at admission and prior to discharge, (4) readmission rates within 72 h and (5) time from discharge to homecare nursing visit for high-risk patients.
conclusionsThe five measures identified through this research may be useful as indicators of overall care quality related to care transitions involving complex-care patients across different healthcare settings. Further research efforts are called for to explore the applicability and feasibility of using the quality measures to drive quality improvement across the healthcare system.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.