JAMDA
August 10, 2021
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JAMDA
May 29, 2021
Integration Activities Between Hospitals and Skilled Nursing Facilities: A National Survey
Increasing recognition of the adverse events older adults experience in post-acute care in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) has led to multiple efforts to improve care integration between hospitals and SNFs. We sought to measure current care integration activities between hospitals and SNFs.
JAMDA
April 9, 2021
Factors Associated with Timing of the Start-of-Care Nursing Visits in Home Health Care
Home health care patients have critical needs requiring timely care following hospital discharge. Although Medicare requires timely start-of-care nursing visits, a significant portion of home health care patients wait longer than 2 days for the first visit. No previous studies investigated the pattern of s...
JAMDA
March 19, 2021
A Cross-Sectional Survey of Internal Medicine Residents’ Knowledge, Attitudes, and Current Practices Regarding Patient Transitions to Post-Acute Care
Prior studies have found suboptimal knowledge about post-acute care (PAC) among inpatient providers and poor communication at discharge that can lead to unsafe discharge transitions, but little is known about residents and the PAC transition. The aim of this study is to assess internal medicine residents’ ...
JAMDA
September 14, 2020
How Context Influences Hospital Readmissions from Skilled Nursing Facilities: A Rapid Ethnographic Study
Improving hospital discharge processes and reducing adverse outcomes after hospital discharge to skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) are gaining national recognition. However, little is known about how the social-contextual factors of hospitals and their affiliated SNFs may influence the discharge process an...
Podcast
July 20, 2020
AMDA On-The-Go | Interventions to Improve SNF to ER Transitions
JAMDA
December 5, 2019
Reducing Hospital Readmissions Through a Skilled Nursing Facility Discharge Intervention: A Pragmatic Trial
To determine if implementation of Project Re-Engineered Discharge (RED), designed for hospitals but adapted for skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), reduces hospital readmissions after SNF discharge to the community in residents admitted to the SNF following an index hospitalization.
JAMDA
May 24, 2019
A “Hospital-Day-1” Model to Predict the Risk of Discharge to a Skilled Nursing Facility
To derive and validate a model to predict a patient's probability of skilled nursing facility (SNF) discharge using data available from day 1 of hospitalization.
JAMDA
April 4, 2019
One Way Out? A Multistate Transition Model of Outcomes After Nursing Home Admission
To understand how the odds of both adverse and positive transitions vary over the course of episodes of care in nursing homes.
JAMDA
March 6, 2019
A Framework for Supporting Post-acute Care Transitions of Older Patients With Hip Fracture
Improving care transitions is of critical importance for older patients, especially those with complex care needs. Our study examined the “Transitions of Care” (ToC) of complex, post-acute older adults at multiple time points. The objective of this article is to identify domains relevant to health care tra...
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