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The move from pediatric to adult kidney transplant care is not just a clinic change. It is a critical moment that can shape long-term survival.

This interdisciplinary discussion shares how teams can support a successful transition.

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A Novel Approach to Care Redesign Collaboration Between Emergency and Specialty Departments: Qualitative Experience Report Background: Given rising demand for Emergency Department (ED) services and coupled with a scarcity of specialty care availability, there is urgency to design a system for appropriate, effective, and timely ED-to-specialty outpatient referrals. Efficient care transitions are important to patient outcomes and experience and require cross-specialty cooperation as care transitions affect practices and resources of individuals, departments, and institutions. Objective: Here our objective was to (1) describe a collaboration between Stanford’s Emergency Medicine and Neurology & Neurological Sciences departments aimed to design and implement an optimized discharge process and transition of care from ED to ambulatory neurology for follow-up care and (2) the resulting intervention from the collaboration. Methods: We describe the process for barrier identification, tools used to foster partnership and intervention ideation, and the resulting intervention. Our experience and findings are integrated into a 4-component framework for future interdepartmental collaborations: (1) cross-specialty team meetings; (2) pre-implementation interviews; (3) a design thinking focus group session; and (4) small group meetings. Qualitative data included observational notes and document review from bi-weekly cross-specialty and small group meetings, pre-implementation interviews, design-thinking focus groups. Results: Our process included 10 cross-specialty team meetings with 8 physician and operational representatives, 18 individual pre-implementations interviews, 10 focus group participants, and 9 small group meetings. The process components fostered collaboration and teamwork amongst the multi-disciplinary team; supported early identification of barriers and facilitators, including divergent understanding of project goals; and developed creative ideas that contributed to intervention development. The collaboration resulted in a 4-pronged multi-modal intervention. Two elements focused on modifying clinical practice to better triage clinically appropriate ED referrals to ambulatory neurology: (1) optimizing management of conditions in the ED to reduce preventable referrals, and (2) increasing deferral to Primary Care clinicians to direct appropriate specialty follow-up care. Two additional structural elements sought to directly improve appropriate referral timeliness by: (3) streamlining insurance authorization processes and (4) increasing neurology appointment availability. Conclusions: This cross-specialty collaboration resulted in a multi-modal intervention that called for both structural and practice changes which were novel and supported by the results of comparable interventions. Future applications of this framework can validate its utility among different collaborative groups in new settings.

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Detailed Analysis and Road Map Proposal for Care Transition Records and Their Transmission Process: Mixed Methods Study Background: The digitalization of health care in Germany holds great potential to improve patient care, resource management, and efficiency. However, strict data protection regulations, fragmented infrastructures, and resistance to change hinder progress.…

New in JMIR Nursing: Detailed Analysis and Road Map Proposal for Care Transition Records and Their Transmission Process: Mixed Methods Study #HealthCare #DigitalHealth #PatientCare #HealthTech #CareTransition

Sinai Health launches testing of digital tool to transform transition from hospital to home Sinai Health has launched the implementation testing of its first in-house-developed digital communications tool.

🏥 ➡️ 🏠 Ready to bridge gaps in care?

Sinai Health has launched the testing of its Digital Bridge communications tool, co-designed with patients with complex care needs & aimed at smoothing their transition from hospital to home. #DigitalHealth #CareTransition

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New York State OMH Awards $30 Million for Support Teams to Assist Long-Term Homeless People and Individuals Transitioning From Inpatient Care The New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH) today announced an award of $30 million over five years to Coordinated Behavioral Care (CBC) to operate

.@NYSomh has announced an award of $30 million over five years to @CBCare to operate eight #treatment teams that work with vulnerable New Yorkers living with #mentalillness and #homelessness.

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Care Transitions: A Critical Time to Prevent Suicides The transition from inpatient psychiatric care to outpatient behavioral health treatment is fraught with elevated risk for people with histories of

This article examines the key ingredients needed to help prevent #suicide during the transition from #inpatient to #outpatient care.

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