2024
Nursing Home to Emergency Care Transition Form Has Limited Uptake But Improves Documentation
Serina P, Stavrand A, Lind M, Gettel C, Southerland L, Goldberg E. Nursing Home to Emergency Care Transition Form Has Limited Uptake But Improves Documentation. Journal Of The American Medical Directors Association 2024, 25: 105056. PMID: 38843872, PMCID: PMC11403945, DOI: 10.1016/j.jamda.2024.105056.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchDocumentation completenessAcute care transfersPre-implementation dataOdds of admissionRandom cross-sectional sampleQuality of information exchangeCross-sectional sampleNursing homesCare transfersCoC standardsImproved documentationPost-implementationTransfer documentsImplementation evaluationDecreased oddsEncounter dataEvaluate adoptionHospital admissionLogistic regressionSignificant information gapCognitive baselineNursesData elementsInformation gapFunctional baseline
2018
The Impact of Incomplete Nursing Home Transfer Documentation on Emergency Department Care
Gettel CJ, Merchant RC, Li Y, Long S, Tam A, Marks SJ, Goldberg EM. The Impact of Incomplete Nursing Home Transfer Documentation on Emergency Department Care. Journal Of The American Medical Directors Association 2018, 20: 935-941.e3. PMID: 30385229, PMCID: PMC6996106, DOI: 10.1016/j.jamda.2018.09.008.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsLarge health care systemHospital admissionTransfer documentationFunctional statusQuality improvement toolsDocumentation completenessHigher Charlson Comorbidity Index scoresCharlson Comorbidity Index scoreTransfer documentsComorbidity Index scoreEmergency department careEmergency department cliniciansMultivariable linear regressionCore itemsNeed of nursingHealth care systemPatient ageNH residentsRetrospective studyMental statusDocumentation completionMultivariable modelIndex scoreLogistic regressionFacility characteristics