Measurement of unnecessary psychiatric readmissions: a scoping review protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Care transition for patients being discharged from inpatient mental healthcare to outpatient settings is a growing focus for healthcare delivery systems. Many studies of this inpatient to outpatient transition use the rate of postdischarge readmissions as a patient-level outcome measure to assess the quality of transition. However, it is unclear how studies define the measure, and whether there is a shared understanding by the field regarding which definition is appropriate for which circumstances. This scoping review thus aims to examine how published studies have approached measuring unnecessary psychiatric readmissions.

Methods and analysis

The scoping review will be structured according to Levac et al's enhancement to Arksey and O'Malley's framework f

SUBMITTER: Kim B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6661670 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature