Measurement of unnecessary psychiatric readmissions in the context of care transition interventions: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The objective of this study was to examine how published studies of inpatient to outpatient mental healthcare transition processes have approached measuring unnecessary psychiatric readmissions.

Design

Scoping review using Levac et al's enhancement to Arksey and O'Malley's framework for conducting scoping reviews.

Data sources

Medline (Ovid), Embase (Ovid), PsycINFO, CINAHL, Cochrane and ISI Web of Science article databases were searched from 1 January 2009 through 28 February 2019.

Eligibility criteria for selecting studies

We included studies that (1) are about care transition processes associated with unnecessary psychiatric readmissions and (2) specify use of at least one readmission time interval (ie, the time period since previous dischar

SUBMITTER: Kim B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7871679 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature