Year: 2018
Type: article
Abstract: When health care systems employ transitional care interventions, this leads to better patient care and reduced hospital readmissions.Hospital readmissions unnecessarily increase health care costs.Recent healthcare reform encourages improved methods to streamline the transition from hospital to home for patients with the goal of reducing rehospitalizations.Many hospitalized patients have chronic diseases that further complicate the discharge process, and diabetes is one of the most prevalent of these chronic diseases.A case study involving a patient with diabetes and her hospital discharge experience is examined, as well as a discussion of how this experience would have differed in a system with transitional interventions.A literature review of the development, interventions, and outcomes of transitional care are presented, along with information supporting transitional care programs for patients with diabetes.Ultimately, the implementation of an APRN led transitional care program can reduce unnecessary hospital readmissions, save health care dollars, and improve patient outcomes.
Author: Jennifer Henry
Language: English
Subfield: Leadership and Management
Field: Nursing
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3129321075