ArticleHuman factors2024
Older Adult Patients and Care Partners as Knowledge Brokers in Fragmented Health Care.
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- Safety Climate and Safety Behavior and Outcomes: A Comprehensive Systematic Review in Healthcare From the Perspective of Staff and Patients.Human factors · 2026Pooled it
- Inclusion of Informal Carers in the Care of Older Adults in the Emergency Department: An Integrative Review.Journal of clinical nursing · 2025Pooled it
- Marginal Dispositions and Shared Decision-Making Among Older Adults in the ED: A Prospective Cohort Study.Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine · 2026Article
- Engineering Safe Care Journeys: Designing a Patient Safety Passport.Journal of patient safety · 2025Article
- Workflow analysis of breast cancer treatment decision-making: challenges and opportunities for informatics to support patient-centered cancer care.JAMIA open · 2024Article
- Evaluating the Barriers and Facilitators to Implementing a Novel Referral System for Outpatient Geriatric Services: The Geri-Hub Quality Improvement Initiative.Health services insights · 2024Article
- Care Partner's Experience with Care Received in the Emergency Department.Convergence : breaking down barriers between disciplines : proceedings of the International Conference on Healthcare Systems Ergonomics and Patient Safety, HEPS2022. HEPS (Conference) (7th : 2022 : Delft, Netherlands) · 2024Article
- Defining and enhancing collaboration between community pharmacists and primary care providers to improve medication safety.Expert opinion on drug safety · 2022Review
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Abstract
objectiveTo describe older adult patients' and care partners' knowledge broker roles during emergency department (ED) visits.
backgroundOlder adult patients are vulnerable to communication and coordination challenges during an ED visit, which can be exacerbated by the time and resource constrained ED environment. Yet, as a constant throughout the patient journey, patients and care partners can act as an information conduit, or knowledge broker, between fragmented care systems to attain high-quality, safe care.
methodsParticipants included 14 older adult patients (
resultsWe found that patients and care partners act as knowledge brokers by providing information about diagnostic testing, medications, the patient's health history, and care accommodations at the disposition location. Patients and care partners filled the role of knowledge broker proactively (i.e. offer information) and reactively (i.e. are asked to provide information by clinicians or staff), within-ED work system and across work systems (e.g., between the ED and hospital), and in anticipation of future knowledge brokering.
conclusionPatients and care partners, acting as knowledge brokers, often fill gaps in communication and participate in care coordination that assists in mitigating health care fragmentation.
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