Showing posts with label hospital to home. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hospital to home. Show all posts

Monday, 12 September 2016

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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Wednesday, 31 October 2012

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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