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ArticlePopulation health management2020

Face-to-Face Meetings with Neurosurgical Patients Before Hospital Discharge: Impact on Telephone Outreach, Emergency Department Visits, and Hospital Readmissions.

Franz H Vergara, Jean E Davis, Chakra Budhathoki, Nancy J Sullivan, Daniel J Sheridan

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Article in Population health management, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5 authors.

Franz H VergaraBloomberg School of Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.
Jean E DavisGoldfarb School of Nursing at Barnes-Jewish College, St. Louis, Missouri.
Chakra BudhathokiSchool of Nursing, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.
Nancy J SullivanSchool of Nursing, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.
Daniel J SheridanTexas A&M University, College of Nursing, Bryan, Texas.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Johns Hopkins Community Health Partnerships (JCHiP) was developed in 2010 within the Johns Hopkins Health Systems. As part of JCHiP, the Patient Access Line call center was created. The average telephone reach rate at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in 2014 was only 53%. In a population of adult neurosurgical patients, this study aimed to: determine the impact of face-to-face meetings with neurosurgical patients before hospital discharge on telephone follow-up (TFU) reach rates, and determine the association between TFU reach rates and subsequent emergency department (ED) visits and hospital readmission rates. This quasi-experimental study used a posttest-only research design with a comparison group. Two adult inpatient neurosurgical units at the Johns Hopkins Hospital were selected as the intervention and comparison groups. A convenience sampling technique was used. Face-to-face meetings pre hospital discharge resulted in a TFU reach rate of 97.7% on the intervention unit while the comparison unit had only a 76.1% TFU reach rate (

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PMID31343380
PMCPMC7074889

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