Understanding the groups of care transition strategies used by U.S. hospitals: an application of factor analytic and latent class methods.

ABSTRACT:

Background

After activation of the Hospital Readmission Reduction Program (HRRP) in 2012, hospitals nationwide experimented broadly with the implementation of Transitional Care (TC) strategies to reduce hospital readmissions. Although numerous evidence-based TC models exist, they are often adapted to local contexts, rendering large-scale evaluation difficult. Little systematic evidence exists about prevailing implementation patterns of TC strategies among hospitals, nor which strategies in which combinations are most effective at improving patient outcomes. We aimed to identify and define combinations of TC strategies, or groups of transitional care activities, implemented among a large and diverse cohort of U.S. hospitals, with the ultimate goal of evaluating their comparative eff

SUBMITTER: Mays G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8543851 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature