Practice models that include a pharmacist as part of the multidisciplinary team represent best practice in inpatient, ambulatory, and community settings, and in care transitions between settings.
One exception concerns the international analyses of mortality statistics based on official death certification, showing how many people die, at what age, from what causes, and where [ 6, 13], but not including important other parameters of the quality of end-of-life care such as the use of palliative care, hospitalisations and transitions between settings, or communication at the end of life.
Comparative analysis of recruitment from general practices to two face-to-face interview studies concerned with 1) carers' perceptions of transitions between settings for decedents aged over 75 years and 2) the experiences of older patients living with cancer at the end-of-life.
The fragmented nature of the system became clear when patients or their relatives needed to contact several different authorities to ensure coordination of care, when mistakes happened during transitions between settings, e.g., home help not showing up after hospital discharge, and when professionals from different organizations disagreed on appropriate care and services.
This approach has been credited with improving continuity of patient care during the transition between healthcare settings [ 3].
Therefore, there is a need to have a measure of care transition to assess the quality of care of patients in transition between care settings in Singapore.
In all countries, more than half of cancer patients (between 52.6% and 69%) had at least one transition between care settings in their last three months of life.
The lack of good communication between primary and secondary care was a source of puzzlement, a finding also reported in another study 20 examining the transition between care settings at the end of life.
Windows 10 also needs greater consistency across its user interface as there is still a jarring transition between traditional desktop settings like the Control Panel and settings pushed into the Modern UI.
It is contended here that that the same offenders operate between these different settings and that the transition between each setting, including access though paid barrier controls (A2 to B1) is not a major obstacle to movement.
When transitioning between medical settings, communication is an integral aspect that can affect the quality of patient care.
