Recommendations for the Design and Delivery of Transitions-Focused Digital Health Interventions: Rapid Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Older adults experience a high risk of adverse events during hospital-to-home transitions. Implementation barriers have prevented widespread clinical uptake of the various digital health technologies that aim to support hospital-to-home transitions.

Objective

To guide the development of a digital health intervention to support transitions from hospital to home (the Digital Bridge intervention), the specific objectives of this review were to describe the various roles and functions of health care providers supporting hospital-to-home transitions for older adults, allowing future technologies to be more targeted to support their work; describe the types of digital health interventions used to facilitate the transition from hospital to home for older adults and eluci

SUBMITTER: Singh H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9164100 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature