Impact of a transition nurse program on the prevention of thirty-day hospital readmissions of elderly patients discharged from short-stay units: Study protocol of the PROUST stepped-wedge cluster randomised trial

BMC Geriatrics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Occelli, Pauline ^a   Touzet, Sandrine ^a   Rabilloud, Muriel ^a,b,c,d   Ganne, Christell ^a   Poupon Bourdy, Stéphanie ^a   Galamand, Béatrice ^e   Debray, Matthieu ^f   Dartiguepeyrou, André ^g   Chuzeville, Michel ^h   Comte, Brigitte ^h   Turkie, Basile ⁱ   Tardy, Magali ^j   Luiggi, Jean Stéphane ^k   Jacquet Francillon, Thierry ^l   Gilbert, Thomas ^e   Bonnefoy, Marc ^e  

^a HOSPICES CIVILS DE LYON   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^d LABORATOIRE DE BIOMÉTRIE ET BIOLOGIE EVOLUTIVE   (France)

^e CENTRE HOSPITALIER LYON SUD   (France)

^f Centre Hospitalier Général d'Annecy   (France)

^g Alpes Leman Hospital   (France)

^h EDOUARD HERRIOT HOSPITAL   (France)

ⁱ Clinique Les Portes du Sud   (France)

^j Centre Hospitalier de Saint Chamond   (France)

^k Centre Hospitalier Gériatrique du Mont d'Or   (France)

^l Centre Hospitalier de Bourg en Bresse   (France)

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Author keywords

Care transition; Elderly; Patient readmission; Stepped wedge design

Indexed keywords

AGED; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DATA ANALYSIS; DAY HOSPITAL; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EMERGENCY CARE; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NURSE; PREVENTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REGISTRATION; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; STUDY DESIGN; TRANSITIONAL CARE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRANCE; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES; NURSING; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PREVALENCE; PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIME FACTOR; TRENDS;

AGED; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRANCE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PATIENT READMISSION; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TRANSITIONAL CARE;

EID: 84960119769     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12877-016-0233-2     Document Type: Article

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