Transitional Planning and Discharge Planning of Prisoners

Health professional perspectives on systems failures in transitional care for patients with dementia and their carers: a qualitative descriptive study

BACKGROUND Healthcare professionals engage in discharge planning of people with dementia during hospitalisation, however plans for transitioning the person into community services can be patchy and ineffective. The aim of this study was to report acute, community and residential care health professionals' (HP) perspectives on the discharge process and transitional care arrangements for people w...

A Discharge Planning Template for the Electronic Medical Record Improves Scheduling of Neurology Follow-up for Comanaged Seizure Patients.

OBJECTIVE We examined whether the addition of a standardized discharge planning template (DPT) for the electronic medical record facilitated scheduling of outpatient neurology follow-up appointments in children hospitalized with seizures. METHODS We reviewed medical records of patients discharged from a children's hospital with a diagnosis of seizures between January 2012 and June 2013. The s...

Integrated post-discharge transitional care in a hospitalist system to improve discharge outcome

Effects of an enhanced discharge planning intervention for hospitalized older adults: a randomized trial.

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY To identify needs encountered by older adult patients after hospital discharge and assess the impact of a telephone transitional care intervention on stress, health care utilization, readmissions, and mortality. DESIGN AND METHODS Older adult inpatients who met criteria for risk of post-discharge complications were randomized at discharge through the electronic medical re...

Pharmacists hope to bill under new medicare 'G' code: payment would be for transitional care after hospital discharge.

A new Medicare "G" code for transitional care may help to reduce the number of hospital readmissions.