The Aging Network and Care Transitions: Preparing Your Organization-Chapter4
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Measuring the effect of a care transitions program is an important challenge. It requires an understanding of the relevant outcomes and the processes leading to them, detecting meaningful changes in those outcomes, and accurately attributing improvements to the care transitions program. Evaluating program outcomes can not only help the partnership understand the impact of the care transitions efforts but also produce results that can be included in messages to key stakeholders and new potential partners.
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تاریخ انتشار 2011