Paediatric hospital admission processes and outcomes: a qualitative study of parents' experiences and priorities.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Hospital admission, like hospital discharge, represents a transition of care associated with changes in setting, healthcare providers and clinical management. While considerable efforts have focused on improving the quality and safety of hospital-to-home transitions, there has been little focus on transitions into hospital.

Objectives

Among children hospitalised with ambulatory care sensitive conditions, we aimed to characterise families' experiences as they transitioned from outpatient to inpatient care, identify hospital admission processes and outcomes most important to families and determine how parental perspectives differed between children admitted directly and through emergency departments (ED).

Methods

We conducted semistructured interviews

SUBMITTER: Leyenaar JK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6330698 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature