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ArticleHealth & social care in the community2022

Improving transitional care communication for older Australians from hospital to home: Co-design of the TRANSITION tool.

Jacqueline Allen, Alison M Hutchinson, Rhonda Brown, Patricia M Livingston

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Article in Health & social care in the community, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Jacqueline AllenSchool of Nursing and Midwifery, Monash University, Clayton, Vic., Australia.
Alison M HutchinsonSchool of Nursing and Midwifery, Centre for Quality and Patient Safety Research, Institute for Health Transformation, Deakin University, Geelong, Vic., Australia.
Rhonda BrownSchool of Nursing and Midwifery, Deakin University, Geelong, Vic., Australia.
Patricia M LivingstonSchool of Nursing and Midwifery, Centre for Quality and Patient Safety Research, Institute for Health Transformation, Deakin University, Geelong, Vic., Australia.
Deakin University · AUMonash University · AU

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study aimed to develop and evaluate a communication tool to guide transitional care for older patients. Using experience-based co-design, a communication tool resulted from the triangulation of data collected from three study phases. From 2015 to 2016, semi-structured interviews and co-design focus groups were undertaken with older patients, carers and healthcare practitioners across acute, rehabilitation and community settings. The evaluation phase, conducted in 2017-2018, involved use of the communication tool by healthcare practitioners in a multidisciplinary care team with older patients in acute care and semi-structured interviews with healthcare practitioners about the acceptability and feasibility of the tool. A total of 103 patients, carers and healthcare practitioners took part. In semi-structured interviews, patients and carers reported needing to become independent in care transitions, which was supported by discussing the transitional care plan with healthcare practitioners. Interviews with healthcare practitioners identified that their need for fast and safe care transitions was supported by team discussion and by engaging patients and carers in their transitional care plan. Co-design focus group participants identified principles guiding transitional care including patient-centred communication. Data collected from semi-structured interviews and co-design focus groups were used to develop a prototype communication tool to guide conversations about discharge care between healthcare practitioners and older patients. Following use, healthcare practitioners reported that the communication tool was feasible and acceptable although some nurses perceived that transitional care was not their role. The communication tool provides an evidence-based resource for ward nurses to support transitional care continuity in multidisciplinary models.

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Hospital to Home TransitionTransitional CareAustraliaCaregiversCommunicationHumansco-designcommunicationolder adultsqualitative methodstransitional care

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PMID35507732
PMCPMC10084314
OpenAlexW4229032921

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