The Care Transitions Measure-3 Is Only Weakly Associated with Post-discharge Outcomes: a Retrospective Cohort Study in 48,384 Albertans.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The National Quality Forum endorsed a 3-item Care Transitions Measure (CTM-3), part of the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey, for evaluating hospital care transitions performance.

Objective

To explore whether CTM-3 scores are a suitable proxy for quality of transitional care.

Design

Retrospective cohort study.

Participants

A random sample of 48,384 adults discharged from medical or surgical wards in all 113 acute care hospitals in Alberta, Canada, between April 2011 and March 2016.

Main measures

CTM-3 scores and their associations with all-cause emergency department (ED) visits or non-elective readmissions at 30 days, 3 months, and 12 months anywhere in the province.

Results

CTM-3 scores we

SUBMITTER: McAlister FA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6848721 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature