Improving patient discharge and reducing hospital readmissions by using Intervention Mapping

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Hesselink, Gijs ^a   Zegers, Marieke ^a   Vernooij Dassen, Myrra ^a   Barach, Paul ^b,c,d   Kalkman, Cor ^b   Flink, Maria ^e,f   Öhlén, Gunnar ^e,f   Olsson, Mariann ^e,f   Bergenbrant, Susanne ^f   Orrego, Carola ^g   Suñol, Rosa ^g   Toccafondi, Giulio ^h   Venneri, Francesco ^h   Dudzik Urbaniak, Ewa ⁱ   Kutryba, Basia ⁱ   Schoonhoven, Lisette ^a   Wollersheim, Hub ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^e KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^f KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^g Fundacion Avedis Donabedian   (Spain)

^h Clinical Risk Management and Patient Safety Centre   (Italy)

ⁱ National Center for Quality Assessment in Health Care   (Poland)

Author keywords

Adverse events; Intervention mapping; Patient discharge; Patient handoff; Patient readmission

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL HANDOVER; EUROPE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; STANDARDS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

EUROPE; FOCUS GROUPS; HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PATIENT HANDOFF; PATIENT READMISSION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT;

EID: 84908209573     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-14-389     Document Type: Article

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