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The Experience of Providing Older Adult Patients with Transitional Care from an Acute Care Hospital to Home in Cooperation with a Public Health Center.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:This study aimed to describe the experience of providing older adult patients with transitional care from an acute care hospital to home in cooperation with a public health center, in order to present the barriers to that care and suggest better organizational methods. METHODS:This was a cross-sectional study to show the results of the Geriatric Screening for Care-10 (GSC-10) and outcomes of transitional care. Among 659 hospitalized patients aged 65 years or above who lived in an administrative district, forty-five subjects were enrolled between June 24, 2019 and January 23, 2020. Within 48 hours of admission, using the 10 areas of GSC-10, they were assessed for cognitive impairment, depression, polypharmacy (5 or more medications), functional mobility, dysphagia, malnutrition, pain, and incontinence, and were reassessed before discharge. The transitional care plan (containing the treatment summary, the results of the GSC-10 assessment, and the post-discharge plan) was forwarded to a representative of the public health center, who provided continued disease management and various health care services, such as chronic disease and frailty care, and physical rehabilitation. RESULTS:Of all the participants, 64.4% had more than 1 GSC-10 concern. The most prevalent concerns were functional immobility (35.6%) and polypharmacy (22.2%). About 15.6% of the participants were readmitted to a nursing home or hospital. A total of 38 participants received the transitional care intervention. They received an average of 2.7 administered interventions. However, the rate of rejection was high (30.1%) and patients were visited an average of 16.5 days after discharge. CONCLUSION:Through our experience of providing transitional care from an acute care hospital to home in cooperation with a public health center, we expect that the transitional care suitable for the Korean medical situation could be established and successful.

SUBMITTER: Shin J

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7550231 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

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The Experience of Providing Older Adult Patients with Transitional Care from an Acute Care Hospital to Home in Cooperation with a Public Health Center.

Shin Jinyoung J Han Seol Heui SH Choi Jaekyung J Kim Yoon Sook YS Lee Jongmin J

Journal of Korean medical science 20201012 39

<h4>Background</h4>This study aimed to describe the experience of providing older adult patients with transitional care from an acute care hospital to home in cooperation with a public health center, in order to present the barriers to that care and suggest better organizational methods.<h4>Methods</h4>This was a cross-sectional study to show the results of the Geriatric Screening for Care-10 (GSC-10) and outcomes of transitional care. Among 659 hospitalized patients aged 65 years or above who l ...[more]

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Project description:BackgroundRecent studies indicate inadequate nutritional care practices in healthcare institutions and identify several barriers to perform individualized nutritional care to older persons. Organisation of care can become rigid and standardised, thus failing to be respectful of and responsive to each person's needs and preferences. There is limited research exploring health professionals' views on how structure of care allows them to individualize nutritional care to older persons. In this study we aim to explore how healthcare professionals' experience providing individualised nutritional care within the organisational frames of acute geriatric hospital care and home care.MethodsSemi-structured interviews with 23 healthcare professionals from hospital acute geriatric care and home care. Interviews were analyzed using thematic analysis.ResultsTwo main themes and six sub-themes emerged from the material. Theme 1: 'Meeting patients with complex nutritional problems' with the sub-themes: 'It is much more complex than just not eating' and 'seeing nutrition as a part of the whole'. Theme 2: 'The structure of the nutritional care', with the sub-themes: 'Nutritional routines: Much ado, but for what?', 'lack of time to individualize nutritional care', 'lack of interdisciplinary collaboration in nutritional care' and 'meeting challenging situations with limited resources in home care'.ConclusionsThe healthcare professionals described having a high focus on and priority of nutritional care when caring for older persons. They did however find it challenging to practice individualized nutritional care due to the complexity of the patients' nutritional problems and constraints in the way nutritional care was organised. By describing the challenges the healthcare professionals face when trying to individualize the nutritional care, this study may provide important knowledge to health professionals and policy makers on how to decrease the gap between older patients' preferences for care and nutritional care practice.

Project description:IntroductionIn Germany, an efficient and feasible transition from hospital to home for older patients, ensuring continuous care across healthcare settings, has not yet been applied and evaluated. Based on the transitional care model (TCM), this study aims to reduce preventable readmissions of patients ≥75 years of age with a transitional care intervention performed by geriatric-experienced care professionals. The study investigates whether the intervention ensures continuous care during transition and stabilises the care situation of patients at home.Methods and analysesRandomised controlled clinical trial, recruiting between 25 April 2018 and 31 December 2019 in one German hospital in the city of Regensburg. The intervention group is supported by care professionals in the transition process from hospital to home for up to 12 months. Based on TCM, the intervention includes an individual care plan according to a patient's symptoms, risks, needs and values. The plan is advanced in the domestic situation via personal visits and telephone contacts. All necessary care actions regarding, for example, mobility, residence adjustments, or nutrition, are initiated to be executed by ambulant care services, and are monitored, evaluated and adapted if necessary. In supervising the care plan, the care professionals do not administer active care services themselves but coordinate them. Patients and their caregivers are actively engaged in the care planning and execution. In contrast, the control group receives only usual discharge planning in the hospital and usual ambulatory care.The primary outcome is the all-cause readmission rate assessed using health insurance data within a follow-up of up to 12 months after hospital discharge. Secondary outcomes include care quality, mobility, nutritional and wound situation, and health-related quality of life. They are assessed at baseline, after 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, and at the end of study visit. Additionally, the economic efficiency of the intervention will be evaluated.Ethics and disseminationEthics approval for the trial was obtained from the Ethics Committee of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Results will be published in peer-reviewed, open-access scientific journals and disseminated at national and international research conferences and through public presentations in the geriatric and healthcare community.Trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT03513159.

Project description:BackgroundTransitional hospital-to-home care programs support safe and timely transition from acute care settings back into the community. Case-mix systems that classify transitional care clients into groups based on their resource utilization can assist with care planning, calculating reimbursement rates in bundled care funding models, and predicting health human resource needs. This study evaluated the fit and relevance of the Resource Utilization Groups version III for Home Care (RUG-III/HC) case-mix classification system in transitional care programs in Ontario, Canada.MethodsWe conducted a retrospective analysis of clinical assessment data and administrative billing records from a cohort of clients (n = 1,680 care episodes) in transitional home care programs in Ontario. We classified care episodes into established RUG-III/HC groups based on clients' clinical and functional characteristics and calculated four case-mix indices to describe care relative resource utilization in the study sample. Using these indices in linear regression models, we evaluated the degree to which the RUG-III/HC system can be used to predict care resource utilization.ResultsA majority of transitional home care clients are classified as being Clinically complex (41.6%) and having Reduced physical functions (37.8%). The RUG-III/HC groups that account for the largest share of clients are those with the lowest hierarchical ranking, indicating low Activities of Daily Living limitations but a range of Instrumental Activities of Daily Living limitations. There is notable heterogeneity in the distribution of clients in RUG-III/HC groups across transitional care programs. The case-mix indices reflect decreasing hierarchical resource use within but not across RUG-III/HC categories. The RUG-III/HC predicts 23.34% of the variance in resource utilization of combined paid and unpaid care time.ConclusionsThe distribution of clients across RUG-III/HC groups in transitional home care programs is remarkably different from clients in long-stay home care settings. Transitional care programs have a higher proportion of Clinically complex clients and a lower proportion of clients with Reduced physical function. This study contributes to the development of a case-mix system for clients in transitional home care programs which can be used by care managers to inform planning, costing, and resource allocation in these programs.

Project description:BackgroundMany hospitalized older adults cannot be discharged because they lack the health and social support to meet their post-acute care needs. Transitional care programs (TCPs) are designed to provide short-term and low-intensity restorative care to these older adults experiencing or at risk for delayed discharge. However, little is known about the contextual factors (i.e., patient, staff and environmental characteristics) that may influence the implementation and outcomes of TCPs. This scoping review aims to answer: 1) What are socio-demographic and/or clinical characteristics of older patients served by TCPs?; 2) What are the core components provided by TCPs?; and 3) What patient, caregiver, and health system outcomes have been investigated and what changes in these outcomes have been reported for TCPs?MethodsThe six-step scoping review framework and PRISMA-ScR checklist were followed. Studies were included if they presented models of TCPs and evaluated them in community-dwelling older adults (65+) experiencing or at-risk for delayed discharge. The data synthesis was informed by a framework, consistent with Donabedian's structure-process-outcome model.ResultsTCP patients were typically older women with multiple chronic conditions and some cognitive impairment, functionally dependent and living alone. The review identified five core components of TCPs: assessment; care planning and monitoring; treatment; discharge planning; and patient, family and staff education. The main outcomes examined were functional status and discharge destination. The results were discussed with a view to inform policy makers, clinicians and administrators designing and evaluating TCPs as a strategy for addressing delayed hospital discharges.ConclusionTCPs can influence outcomes for older adults, including returning home. TCPs should be designed to incorporate interdisciplinary care teams, proactively admit those at risk of delayed discharge, accommodate persons with cognitive impairment and involve care partners. Additional studies are required to investigate the contributions of TCPs within integrated health care systems.

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