UtilizingFamily-Centered Process and Outcome Measures to Assess Hospital-to-Home Transition Quality

Arti D. Desai, Tamara D. Simon, JoAnna K. Leyenaar, Maria T. Britto, Rita Mangione-Smith
2018 Academic pediatrics  
Keywords emergency medicine; hospitalists; hospitals; inpatients; outcome and process assessment (health care) pediatrics; quality of care FAMILIES OF PEDIATRIC patients face numerous potential challenges during their transition from hospital settings to home. These include poor preparation for home care management, conflicting expectations regarding the recovery process, lack of support after discharge, and discontinuity of care. 1 Approximately 1 of 4 pediatric patients experience a
more » ... rge problem, 2 with one third of these requiring significant action from a health care provider. 3 Thus, efforts to standardize pediatric hospitalization discharge processes and measure improvement in outcomes remains a clinical, research, and policy priority. In the November/December 2016 issue of Academic Pediatrics, we reported on the development of 8 new caregiver-reported measures to assess the quality of hospital-and emergency department (ED)-to-home transitions. 4 Our purpose with this commentary is to
doi:10.1016/j.acap.2018.07.013 pmid:30077673 pmcid:PMC6598693 fatcat:5ybigjpim5hc7p4gazav2dxese