There has been a global trend in the expansion of Early Learning and Childcare (ELC) provision meaning more children younger ages accessing ELC experiencing associated transitions than was previously case. This occurred within an increasingly Neoliberal context, with greater focus on measurable educational outcomes, which are often placed as juxta positioned to care, may prove challenging defin...

Coordinating care for hospitalized patients requires the use of multiple sources of information. Using a macroergonomic framework (i.e. the work system model), we conducted interviews and observations of care managers involved in care coordination across transitions of care. When information is distributed across multiple health IT applications, care managers experience a range of challenges, i...

This brief reviews recent efforts to measure and reduce potentially avoidable hospitalization and improve care transitions for individuals who use long-term care, including residents of nursing homes and people in homeand community-based service settings. We describe three areas in which progress is needed: (1) validated measures of avoidable hospitalizations and care transitions for use in lon...

Objectives: This study identified specific personal factors and homeand community-based services (HCBS) that predict older adults’ residential transitions between community and institutional settings. Method: Logistic regression of interview data from 5294 participants in the Second Longitudinal Study of Aging identified predictors of three residential transition patterns and of frequency and d...

Health care transitions are often dangerous for older patients. Interviews with older adults about their health care moves in Rhode Island (RI) were conducted to develop an Internal Medicine (IM) curriculum designed to provide IM interns with insights about the impact of transitions on patients. This paper describes some ways patients talk about their transitional experiences. Following pilot i...

Perioperative nurses and nurse leaders should understand how to apply a nursing informatics framework and informatics concepts to strengthen data interpretation, transitions in care, and engagement with patients susceptible to malignant hyperthermia (MH) and their family members. Patient outcomes can be improved when informatics solutions facilitate identifying risks, clinical decision making i...