Transitional care management is a set of services – conducted after a patient transitions to the community following discharge from the acute or post-acute setting – aiming to improve patient ...

Transitions between healthcare sites—such as from the hospital to home or to a skilled nursing facility—carry known risks to patient safety. Many programs have attempted to improve continuity of care ...

A transitional care practice at Northwestern Memorial Hospital helped reduce healthcare costs compared to traditional discharge services, according to a Northwestern Medicine study published in the ...

Managing transitions in care for older adults and their family caregivers, no matter the care setting, is especially challenging in a rapidly changing health care system. Patient discharges which ...

Transitional care — a set of actions put in place when a patient leaves a hospital or skilled nursing facility — is a vital part of the care journey and one that has increased in importance as more ...

Pediatric and adult care clinicians, as well as family doctors and community partners, should collaborate to better streamline the transition from pediatric care to adult care for youth with complex ...

For children and young people with neurological disorders, the transition from paediatric to adult neurology services is a vulnerable period, with risks of disruptions to continuity of care and ...

Hospital care transition activity facilitates uptake of Medicare-reimbursed transitional care management, which is associated with lower spending and better patient outcomes. Objectives: To assess ...

Adolescents with chronic conditions face complex challenges during transition to adult care that often result in adverse health outcomes. Global best practice standards exist, but their implementation ...