Improving Emergency Department Discharge Care with Telephone Follow-Up. Does It Connect?

What it found

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The trial behind it

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Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Patient experiences of a care transition intervention for Veterans to reduce emergency department visits.Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine · 2023
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2. A Physiotherapy-Led Transition to Home Intervention for Older Adults Following Emergency Department Discharge: A Pilot Feasibility Randomised Controlled Trial (ED PLUS).Clinical interventions in aging · 2023
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3. Effectiveness of a care transitions intervention for older adults discharged home from the emergency department: A randomized controlled trial.Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine · 2022
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4. Telephone follow-up to reduce unplanned hospital returns for older emergency department patients: A randomized trial.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2021
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5. Positive and negative experiences and emotions of older patients before, during and after hospital admission: patient journey mapping.BMC geriatrics · 2026
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6. Comparison of Three Coordination Methods to Increase Outpatient Follow Up Among Older Adults Discharged From the Emergency Department: A Pilot Study.Journal of patient-centered research and reviews · 2026
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7. Contact After Emergency Department Discharge by a Telehealth Transition of Care Program Is Associated With Reduced Emergency Department Revisit Rate.Cureus · 2025
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8. Association of hospital-based substance use supports on emergency department revisits: a retrospective cohort study in Sudbury, Canada from 2018 to 2022.Harm reduction journal · 2024
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9. Emergency Department-to-Community Transitions of Care: Best Practices for the Older Adult Population.Clinics in geriatric medicine · 2023
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10. Experiences and perspectives of older patients with a return visit to the emergency department within 30 days: patient journey mapping.European geriatric medicine · 2022
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11. A physiotherapy-led transition to home intervention for older adults following emergency department discharge: protocol for a pilot feasibility randomised controlled trial.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2022
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12. A Scoping Review of Emergency Department Discharge Risk Stratification.The western journal of emergency medicine · 2021
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13. The effect of a telephone follow-up call for older patients, discharged home from the emergency department on health-related outcomes: a systematic review of controlled studies.International journal of emergency medicine · 2021
    Review
14. Tele-Follow-Up of Older Adult Patients from the Geriatric Emergency Department Innovation (GEDI) Program.Geriatrics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019
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  Telephone Follow-Up for Older Adults Discharged to Home from the Emergency Department: A Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial.2018

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