Nursing Home to Emergency Care Transition Form Has Limited Uptake But Improves Documentation.

ABSTRACT: Critical information gaps exist in nursing home-to-emergency department (NH-ED) transfer documentation. Standardization of forms may address these gaps. In a single state, a Continuity of Care Acute Care Transfer (CoC) Form was standardized and mandated to be used for all NH-ED transfers. The objective of this study was to evaluate adoption and effectiveness of the standardized CoC form. We used a random cross-sectional sample of 2019-2022 electronic health record encounter data to determine NH-ED documentation completeness after standardized CoC form implementation. Using patient characteristic adjusted linear and logistic regressions, we examined if CoC form standardization was associated with the number of key elements present on NH-ED transfer documentation and hospital admission, resp

SUBMITTER: Serina PT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11403945 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature