Recent Findings from Brigham and Women’s Hospital Has Provided New Information about Patient Care and Safety (Clinicians’ Attitudes and System Capacity Regarding Transitional Care Practices Within a Health System: Survey Results From the …): Health and Medicine – Patient Care and Safety

2021 DEC 28 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- A new study on Health and Medicine - Patient Care and Safety is now available. According to news reporting originating from Boston, Massachusetts, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “Successful efforts to improve transitional care depend in part on local attitudes, workload, and training. Before implementing a multifaceted transitions intervention within an Accountable Care Organization, an understanding of contextual factors among providers involved in care transitions in inpatient and outpatient settings was needed.”

Financial support for this research came from Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute - PCORI.

Our news editors obtained a quote from the research from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, “As part of the Partners-Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Transitions Study, we purposefully sampled inpatient and outpatient providers within the Accountable Care Organization. Survey questions focused on training and feedback on transitional tasks and opinions on the quality of care transitions. We also surveyed unit- and practice-level leadership on current transitional care practices. Results are presented using descriptive statistics. Among 387 providers surveyed, 220 responded (response rate = 57%) from 15 outpatient practices and 26 inpatient units. A large proportion of respondents reported to have never received training (50%) or feedback (68%) on key transitional care activities, and most (58%) reported insufficient time to complete these tasks. Respondents on average reported transitions processes led to positive outcomes some to most of the time (mean scores = 4.70-5.16 on a 1-7 scale). Surveys of leadership showed tremendous variation by unit and by practice in the performance of various transitional care activities. Many respondents felt that training, feedback, and time allotted to key transitional care activities were inadequate. Satisfaction with the quality of the transitions process was middling.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “Understanding these results, especially variation by location, was important to customizing implementation of the intervention and will be key to understanding variation in the success of the intervention across locations.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Clinicians’ Attitudes and System Capacity Regarding Transitional Care Practices Within a Health System: Survey Results From the Partners-pcori Transitions Study. Journal of Patient Safety, 2021;17(8). Journal of Patient Safety can be contacted at: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Two Commerce Sq, 2001 Market St, Philadelphia, PA 19103, USA. (Lippincott Williams and Wilkins - www.lww.com; Journal of Patient Safety - http://journals.lww.com/journalpatientsafety/pages/default.aspx)

The news editors report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Jeffrey L. Schnipper, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care, 1620 Tremont St, Boston, MA 02120, United States. Additional authors for this research include Cherlie Magny-Normilus, Nyryan Nolido, Lipika Samal, Ryan Thompson and Gwen Crevensten.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1097/PTS.0000000000000664. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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