Factors associated with increased emergency department transfer in older long-term care residents: a systematic review

C Marincowitz, L Preston, A Cantrell… - The Lancet Healthy …, 2022 - thelancet.com
The proportion of adults older than 65 years is rapidly increasing. Care home residents in
this age group have disproportionate rates of transfer to the Emergency Department (ED) …

Care coordination across healthcare systems: development of a research agenda, implications for practice, and recommendations for policy based on a modified …

S Hempel, D Ganz, S Saluja, M Bolshakova, T Kim… - BMJ open, 2023 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objective For large, integrated healthcare delivery systems, coordinating patient care across
delivery systems with providers external to the system presents challenges. We explored the …

[HTML][HTML] New integrated care models in England associated with small reduction in hospital admissions in longer-term: a difference-in-differences analysis

M Morciano, K Checkland, J Billings, A Coleman… - Health Policy, 2020 - Elsevier
Closer integration of health and social care services has become a cornerstone policy in
many developed countries, but there is still debate over what population and service level is …

Unplanned hospital transfers from nursing homes: who is involved in the transfer decision? Results from the HOMERN study

A Pulst, AM Fassmer, G Schmiemann - Aging clinical and experimental …, 2021 - Springer
Background Emergency department visits and hospital admissions are common among
nursing home residents (NHRs) and seem to be higher in Germany than in other countries …

[HTML][HTML] Comparison of medical care needs and actual care in German and Dutch nursing home residents: a cross-sectional study conducted in neighboring …

AM Fassmer, SU Zuidema, SIM Janus… - Archives of gerontology …, 2024 - Elsevier
Objective Assessing and comparing characteristics of German and Dutch nursing homes,
their residents as well as residents' medical care needs and the actual provision of care …

Staff training interventions to improve end-of-life care of nursing home residents: a systematic review

PJ Lamppu, KH Pitkala - Journal of the American Medical Directors …, 2021 - Elsevier
Objectives The aim was to review evidence from all randomized controlled trials (RCTs)
using palliative care education or staff training as an intervention to improve nursing home …

Barriers and facilitators for implementation of a complex health services intervention in long-term care homes: a qualitative study using focus groups

R von der Warth, V Kaiser, C Reese, BA Brühmann… - BMC geriatrics, 2021 - Springer
Background With rising numbers of elderly people living in nursing homes in Germany, the
need for on-site primary care is increasing. A lack of primary care in nursing homes can lead …

Emergency department transfers from residential aged care: what can we learn from secondary qualitative analysis of Australian Royal Commission data?

P Cain, J Alan, D Porock - BMJ open, 2022 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives To use publicly available submissions and evidence from the Australian Royal
Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety as data for secondary qualitative analysis …

The rate, causes and predictors of ambulance call outs to residential aged care in the Australian Capital Territory: A retrospective observational cohort study

LS Cox, M Naunton, GM Peterson, N Bagheri… - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Older people in residential aged care are susceptible to acute illness or injury which may
necessitate an ambulance call out, assessment/treatment by a paramedic and transfer to a …

Paramedics' perspectives on the hospital transfers of nursing home residents—a qualitative focus group study

A Pulst, AM Fassmer, F Hoffmann… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Emergency department (ED) visits and hospital admissions are common among nursing
home residents (NHRs). Little is known about the perspectives of emergency medical …