Complex Transitions from Skilled Nursing Facility to Home: Patient and Caregiver Perspectives.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patients who undergo the complex series of transitions from the hospital to a skilled nursing facility (SNF) back to home represent a unique patient population with multiple comorbidities and impaired functional abilities. The needs and outcomes of patients who are discharged from the hospital to SNF before returning home are understudied in care transitions scholarship.

Objective

To study the patient and caregiver challenges and perspectives on transitions from the hospital to the SNF and back to home.

Design

Between 48 h and 1 week after discharge from the SNF, semi-structured interviews were performed with a convenience sample of patients and caregivers in their homes. Within 1 to 2 weeks after the baseline interview, follow-up interviews were performed

SUBMITTER: Carnahan JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8131469 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature