The Care Transitions Intervention
| Autor: | Rosa R. Baier, Kristen Butterfield, Rebekah Gardner, Stefan Gravenstein, S Lehrman, Rachel Voss |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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Social Work medicine.medical_specialty Urban Population education Hospitals Community Medicare Patient Readmission Coaching Sampling Studies law.invention Odds Patient Education as Topic Nursing Randomized controlled trial law Intervention (counseling) Outcome Assessment Health Care Health care Odds Ratio Internal Medicine medicine Humans Prospective Studies Lost to follow-up Hospitals Teaching Aged Aged 80 and over Advanced Practice Nursing business.industry Rhode Island Fee-for-Service Plans Odds ratio Continuity of Patient Care Middle Aged Patient Discharge United States Confidence interval Logistic Models Family medicine Female business |
| Zdroj: | Archives of Internal Medicine. 171:1232 |
| ISSN: | 0003-9926 |
| DOI: | 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.278 |
| Popis: | Background:Well-executedcommunicationamonghospital providers, patients, and receiving providers at the timeofhospitaldischargecontributestobetterhealthoutcomesandloweroverallhealthcarecosts.TheCareTransitions Intervention has reduced 30-day hospital readmissions by 30% in a randomized controlled trial in an integrated health system but requires real-world testing to establish effectiveness in other settings. We hypothesized that coaching would reduce 30-day readmission rates for fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries, even in open, urban health care delivery systems. Methods:Thiswasaquasi-experimentalprospectivecohortstudy.FromJanuary1,2009,throughJune30,2010, coaches recruited a convenience sample of fee-forservice Medicare patients in 6 Rhode Island hospitals to receive the Care Transitions Intervention. We paired coaching data with Medicare claims and enrollment data and used logistic regression to compare the odds of 30day readmission for the intervention group vs internal and external control groups. Results: Compared with individuals who did not receive any part of the intervention (20.0% readmission rate), 30-day readmissions were fewer for participants who received coaching (12.8%; odds ratio, 0.61; 95% confidence interval, 0.42-0.88). Individuals in the internal control group (declined to participate or were lost to follow-up before completing a home visit) had readmission rates similar to those of the external control group (18.6%; odds ratio, 0.94, 95% confidence interval, 0.77-1.14). Conclusions: The Care Transitions Intervention appears to be effective in this real-world implementation. This finding underscores the opportunity to improve health outcomes beginning at the time of discharge in open health care settings. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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