After Hospital: Should Older Care-Needing Patients Be Transferred to Their Homes or to an Intermediate Care Institution?

ABSTRACT: In most European countries, communities need to provide health and social care services to an increasing number of severely ill patients discharged from hospitals. We investigated whether nurses in hospitals and in the communities' health and social care services experienced that the administration in the municipalities allocated older patients the right type of services after hospital discharge. We used data from Norway, with a qualitative pilot study and quantitative analysis (structural equation modeling) of surveys involving 2431 nurses on inpatient wards in acute hospitals and 4312 nurses working in nursing homes or home nursing. Dissatisfaction was widespread with the use of patients' homes the first days after hospital discharge. Among nurses working in hospitals, 38% were commonly

SUBMITTER: Gautun H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8955582 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature