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SUMMARY: Sometimes it takes a home visit to a patient with complex chronic conditions to understand the barriers to care compliance that they face. We wanted to see which tasks are being performed during home visits.
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The Healthcare Intelligence Network 2009 Managing Care Transitions Between Sites e-survey captured the essentials of care transition management from 93 healthcare organizations, who answered 24 multiple choice and open-ended questions.
For the 56.5 percent of respondents that include home visits in care transition programs, the following are the top five tasks performed during a home visit:
- Falls assessment: 81.5 percent
- Explanation of red flags for worsening conditions: 77.8 percent
- Medication reconciliation: 77.8 percent
- Patient self-management: 77.8 percent
- Visiting nurse care: 74.1 percent
Source: 2010 Healthcare Benchmarks: Care Transition Management, February, 2010
2010 Healthcare Benchmarks: Care Transition Management
2010 Healthcare Benchmarks: Care Transition
Management provides actionable information from nearly 100 healthcare organizations on their strategies to ease patients' transitions from one care site to another. This 20-page report documents trends and metrics on care transitions programs in use by primary care providers, health plans, hospitals and others.
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