Nursing Home Transfers for Behavioral Concerns: Findings from the OPTIMISTIC Demonstration Project.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To characterize pretransfer on-site nursing home (NH) management, transfer disposition, and hospital discharge diagnoses of long-stay residents transferred for behavioral concerns.

Design

This was a secondary data analysis of the Optimizing Patient Transfers, Impacting Medical Quality, Improving Symptoms: Transforming Institutional Care project, in which clinical staff employed in the NH setting conducted medical, transitional, and palliative care quality improvement initiatives and gathered data related to resident transfers to the emergency department/hospital setting. R software and Microsoft Excel were used to characterize a subset of transfers prompted by behavioral concerns.

Setting

NHs in central Indiana were utilized (N = 19).

Participants

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SUBMITTER: Hathaway EE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10602584 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature