Improving handovers from hospital to home

"This study protocol describes the implementation of TIP, which provides the foundation for a safe, reliable and accurate discharge process. If effective, nationwide implementation of the discharge bundle may result from this study protocol."

Implementation of a Transfer Intervention Procedure (TIP) to improve handovers from hospital to home: interrupted time series analysis
R van Seben, SE Geerlings, KJM Verhaegh, CGJM Hilders, BM Buurman
BMC Health Services Research, 2016, 16:479

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Safely home: What happens when people leave hospital and care settings?

"This report does not include recommendations; instead it poses a challenge to the health and social care sector to take action now to improve people’s experience of leaving services."

Safely home: What happens when people leave hospital and care settings?
Healthwatch England
July 2015

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Telemonitoring after discharge from hospital with heart failure

"Cost-effectiveness analyses suggest that telemonitoring was an optimal strategy in most scenarios, but there is considerable uncertainty in relation to clear descriptions of the interventions and robust estimation of costs."

Telemonitoring after discharge from hospital with heart failure: cost-effectiveness modelling of alternative service designs
P Thokala, et al.
BMJ Open, 2013, 3:e003250

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Hospital to home resource pack

This Hospital to Home Resource Pack contains essential information for all the professional sectors that have a role in hospital discharge for older people in England. It contains information, suggestions for action, case studies and checklists for considering older patients’ housing situations in hospital discharge and transfer of care and for improving integration of housing and support into the process for discharging older people.

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