ArticleThe annals of long-term care : the official journal of the American Medical Directors Association2020
A Systematic Review of Interventions to Improve Nursing Home to Emergency Department Care Transitions.
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10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Transitional Care Interventions for Older Residents of Long-term Care Facilities: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.JAMA network open · 2022Pooled it
- Improving transitions between nursing homes and emergency departments: a qualitative study.BMC nursing · 2025Article
- Variation in emergency department visits among residents of Swedish nursing homes between 2019 and 2020, a population-based cohort study.BMC health services research · 2025Article
- Emergency Department Care Coordination Program for Assisted Living Residents With Dementia: A Qualitative Study.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- The Experiences and Expectations of Older Adults and Close Family in Nursing Home and Emergency Department Transitions: A Qualitative Study.Journal of aging research · 2025Article
- "The stay here is, of course, not appropriate for an old person": the perspective of healthcare providers on older patients in the emergency department.BMC geriatrics · 2024Article
- Nursing Home to Emergency Care Transition Form Has Limited Uptake But Improves Documentation.Journal of the American Medical Directors Association · 2024Article
- Strategies to Improve Emergency Transitions From Long-Term Care Facilities: A Scoping Review.The Gerontologist · 2024Article
- Types, Aspects, and Impact of Relocation Initiatives Deployed within and between Long-Term Care Facilities: A Scoping Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Disparate perspectives: Exploring healthcare professionals' misaligned mental models of older adults' transitions of care between the emergency department and skilled nursing facility.Applied ergonomics · 2021Article
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Abstract
This study aimed to identify interventions that are effective in improving the transitions of care for patients from nursing homes (NHs) to emergency departments (EDs). A total of 607 studies were identified, from which 19 studies were included for full-text review. Nine pre-post intervention studies and two retrospective cohort studies met all criteria for inclusion. In the quality assessment, two (18.2%) were assessed as good quality; seven (63.6%) were fair; and two (18.2%) were poor. Nine studies (81.2%) had a severe risk of bias, primarily due to confounding and deviation from the intended intervention. Pre-post intervention studies utilized transfer checklists/forms, web-based communication networks, and multimodal approaches to improve transitions of care. Eight studies reported significant improvement in critical NH-ED transfer information completeness after intervention implementation. Three studies assessed health care utilization after intervention implementation with two studies reporting no reduction in utilization and one study reporting decreased 30-day hospital readmission and ED revisit rates. Studies evaluating patient-centered outcomes, such as whether interventions reduced harm to patients by decreasing medical errors, hospital length of stay, or the overall number of facility transfers, are needed.
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