Personalizing Nursing Home Compare and the Discharge from Hospitals to Nursing Homes.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To test whether use of a personalized report card, Nursing Home Compare Plus (NHCPlus), embedded in a reengineered discharge process, can lead to better outcomes than the usual discharge process from hospitals to nursing homes.

Data sources/setting

Primary data collected in the Departments of Medicine and Surgery at a University Medical Center between March 2014 and August 2015.

Study design

A randomized controlled trial in which patients in the intervention group were given NHCPlus. Participants included 225 patients or their family members/surrogates.

Data collection

Key strokes of NHCPlus users were recorded to obtain information about usage. Users were surveyed about usability and satisfaction with NHCPlus. All participants were surveyed at discha

SUBMITTER: Mukamel DB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5134132 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature