Residents' Exposure to Educational Experiences in Facilitating Hospital Discharges.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is an incomplete understanding of the most effective approaches for motivating residents to adopt guideline-recommended practices for hospital discharges.

Objective

We evaluated internal medicine (IM) residents' exposure to educational experiences focused on facilitating hospital discharges and compared those experiences based on correlations with residents' perceived responsibility for safely transitioning patients from the hospital.

Methods

A cross-sectional, multi-center survey of IM residents at 9 US university- and community-based training programs in 2014-2015 measured exposure to 8 transitional care experiences, their perceived impact on care transitions attitudes, and the correlation between experiences and residents' perceptions of postdischa

SUBMITTER: Young E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5398134 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature