Evaluation of a Transitional Care Program After Hospitalization for Heart Failure in an Integrated Health Care System.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Prompted by null findings from several care transition trials and practice changes for heart failure in recent years, leaders from a large integrated health care system aimed to reassess the outcomes of its 10-year multicomponent transitional care program for heart failure (HF-TCP).

Objective

To examine the association of the individual HF-TCP components and their bundle with the primary outcome of all-cause 30-day inpatient or observation stay readmissions.

Design, setting, and participants

This retrospective cohort study included patients enrolled in the HF-TCP during an inpatient encounter for heart failure at 13 Kaiser Permanente Southern California hospitals from January 1, 2013, to October 31, 2018, who were followed up from discharge until 30 days, r

SUBMITTER: Baecker A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7716192 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature