Quality improvement in discharge planningAn evaluation of factors in communication between health care providers
作者:
Mary Anderson,
Lelia Helms,
期刊:
Journal of Nursing Care Quality
(OVID Available online 1994)
卷期:
Volume 8,
issue 2
页码: 62-72
ISSN:1057-3631
年代: 1994
出版商: OVID
关键词: discharge planning;referrals;quality improvement;home care;communication
数据来源: OVID
摘要:
Extending quality improvement principles to coordinating patient care among multiple levels of health care service providers has received only limited attention. Referrals function by communicating information about patients' continuing care needs between health care organizations as they transfer responsibility for providing different levels of care. Our evidence suggests several procedural improvements with immediate benefit for improving the quality of referrals. These include employing standardized, written referral forms; assigning responsibility for communication by requiring a signature on each referral; and instituting an information feedback system between sending and receiving health care providers.
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