Interactive Digital Health Tools to Engage Patients and Caregivers in Discharge Preparation: Implementation Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Poor discharge preparation during hospitalization may lead to adverse events after discharge. Checklists and videos that systematically engage patients in preparing for discharge have the potential to improve safety, especially when integrated into clinician workflow via the electronic health record (EHR).

Objective

This study aims to evaluate the implementation of a suite of digital health tools integrated with the EHR to engage hospitalized patients, caregivers, and their care team in preparing for discharge.

Methods

We used the Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, and Maintenance (RE-AIM) framework to identify pertinent research questions related to implementation. We iteratively refined patient and clinician-facing intervention components usi

SUBMITTER: Fuller TE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7218608 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature