Effect of ED-based transitional care interventions by healthcare professionals providing transitional care in the emergency department on clinical, process and service use outcomes: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Suboptimal transitional care (ie, needs assessment and coordination of follow-up care) in the emergency department (ED) is an important cause of ED revisits and hospital admissions and may potentially harm patients, especially frail older adults. We aimed to systematically review the effect of ED-based interventions by health professionals who are dedicated to providing transitional care to older adults.

Design

Systematic review.

Measurements

We searched five biomedical databases for published (quasi)experimental studies evaluating the effects of health professionals in the ED dedicated to providing transitional care to older ED patients on clinical, process and/or service use outcomes. Reviewers screened studies for relevance and assessed methodological qua

SUBMITTER: van den Broek S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10016244 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature