Analyzing Hospital Transfers Using INTERACT Acute Care Transfer Tools: Lessons from MOQI

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 67, Issue 9, 2019, Pages 1953-1959

  Popejoy, Lori L ^a   Vogelsmeier, Amy A ^a   Alexander, Greg L ^a   Galambos, Colleen M ^b   Crecelius, Charles A ^a   Ge, Bin ^c   Flesner, Marcia ^a   Canada, Kelli ^a   Rantz, Marilyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^c University of Missouri   (United States)

Author keywords

avoidable transfers; INTERACT; nursing homes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMENTIA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY CARE; FEVER; HUMAN; INCONTINENCE; INTERVENTIONS TO REDUCE ACUTE CARE TRANSFER; LIVING WILL; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICARE; NAUSEA; NURSING HOME; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; REGISTERED NURSE; RURAL POPULATION; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; VOMITING; ADVANCED PRACTICE NURSING; AGED; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HOME FOR THE AGED; HOSPITALIZATION; MALE; MISSOURI; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VERY ELDERLY;

ADVANCED PRACTICE NURSING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES MISUSE; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MISSOURI; NURSING HOMES; PATIENT TRANSFER; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 85067664966     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jgs.15996     Document Type: Article

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