Information exchange, responsibilities and expectation management in interhospital transfers: a qualitative study of hospital medicine physicians and advanced practice providers.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The transfer of patients between hospitals, known as interhospital transfer (IHT), is associated with higher rates of mortality, longer lengths of stay and greater resource utilisation compared with admissions from the emergency department. To characterise the IHT process and identify key barriers and facilitators to IHT care, we examined the experiences of physician and advanced practice provider (APP) hospital medicine clinicians who care for IHT patients transferred to their facility.

Methods

Qualitative descriptive study using semistructured interviews with adult medicine hospitalists from an academic acute care hospital that accepts approximately 4000 IHT patients annually. A combined inductive and deductive coding approach guided thematic analysis.

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SUBMITTER: Yu A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11426012 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature