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Rita Pickler1, Susan Wade-Murphy, Jennifer Gold
1Author Affiliations: Professor (Dr Pickler), Ohio State University, Columbus (formerly Cincinnati Children's Hospital); Assistant Vice President (Ms Wade-Murphy) and Senior Vice President (Dr Hoying), Patient Services; Clinical Director (Ms Gold), Home Health Agency; Assistant Professor (Dr Tubbs-Cooley), Associate Professor (Dr White), Assistant Professor (Dr Statile), Senior Clinical Research Coordinator (Ms Sauers-Ford), Professor and Division Director (Dr Shah), and Associate Professor (Dr Simmons), Hospital Medicine, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Ohio.
Abstract:
By incorporating focused feedback from families and other stakeholders a multidisciplinary team redesigned a single nurse home visit to improve transitions to home for pediatric patients following short-stay, acute care hospitalizations. Refinements to the nurse-led transitional home visit included standardization of teaching focused on condition- and medication-specific concerns, the use of red flags or warning signs to prompt caregiver action, and the provision of reassurance.
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