How Do Care Transitions Work?: Unraveling the Working Mechanisms of Care Transition Interventions.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Failure of safe care transitions after hospital discharge results in unnecessary worsening of symptoms, extended period of illness or readmission to the hospital.

Objective

The objective of this study was to add to the understanding of the working of care transition interventions between hospital and home through unraveling the contextual elements and mechanisms that may have played a role in the success of these interventions, and by developing a conceptual model of how these components relate to each other.

Research design

This was a qualitative study using in-person, semi-structured interviews, based on realist evaluation methods.

Subjects

A total of 26 researchers, designers, administrators, and/or practitioners of both current "leading" care tra

SUBMITTER: Zwart DLM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8263132 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature