23 For the purpose of this study, interventions implemented to improve transitional care (ie, care transition interventions) are considered synonymous with the above definition of transitional care.
The healthcare communities at both sites built on earlier transition initiatives with widely variable transitional care planning across clinics.
24 Another example is appointing a transition coordinator in charge of transitional care for chronically ill adolescents.
Transitional care programs are started by acute care hospitals to ensure a safe transition of patients from hospital to home.
The Coordinated Transitional Care (C-TraC) program improved readmission rates in medical patients, but evidence-based surgical transitional care protocols are lacking.
But Mark Hailey stabilized and was transferred out of the ICU to the transitional care unit.
Combining health care services supported by meta-analyses, we designed the PACT-HF transitional care model.
One study concludes that better transitional care and management for chronic conditions could save billions.
In particular, there was very poor transitional care between hospital and community.
To determine the cost-effectiveness of nurse practitioners delivering transitional care.
