Understanding patient-centred readmission factors: a multi-site, mixed-methods study.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Patient concerns at or before discharge inform many transitional care interventions; few studies examine patients' perceptions of self-care and other factors related to readmission.

Objectives

To characterise patient-reported or caregiver-reported factors contributing to readmission.

Design, setting and participants

Cross-sectional, national study of general medicine patients readmitted within 30 days at 12 US hospitals. Interviews included multiple-choice survey and open-ended survey questions of patients or their caregivers.

Measurements

Multiple-choice survey quantified post-discharge difficulty in seven domains of self-care: medication use, contacting providers, transportation, basic needs (eg, food and shelter), diet, social support and substanc

SUBMITTER: Greysen SR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11907771 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature