Individual Nurse Productivity in Preparing Patients for Discharge Is Associated With Patient Likelihood of 30-Day Return to Hospital.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Applied to value-based health care, the economic term "individual productivity" refers to the quality of an outcome attributable through a care process to an individual clinician. This study aimed to (1) estimate and describe the discharge preparation productivities of individual acute care nurses and (2) examine the association between the discharge preparation productivity of the discharging nurse and the patient's likelihood of a 30-day return to hospital [readmission and emergency department (ED) visits].

Research design

Secondary analysis of patient-nurse data from a cluster-randomized multisite study of patient discharge readiness and readmission. Patients reported discharge readiness scores; postdischarge outcomes and other variables were extracted from elec

SUBMITTER: Yakusheva O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6693983 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature