Nurses' experiences of transitions of older patients from hospitals to community care. A nation-wide survey in Norway'.

ABSTRACT: Moving older patients from hospitals to community services is a critical phase of integrated care. Yet there has been little large-scale research on the quality of these transitions. We investigated how Norwegian nurses working in community care services (N = 4312) and at in-patient wards at hospitals (N = 2421) experienced the quality of transitions of older patients from hospitals to community care. We tested hypotheses derived from qualitative research and consistent with predictions, we found that compared to hospital nurses, the nurses working in community care experienced lower quality of patient transitions and were less satisfied with information exchange on patients' condition and needs. Further, when comparing groups of community nurses, we confirmed the hypothesis that nurses in

SUBMITTER: Gautun H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7365956 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature