Measuring Care Coordination in the Pediatric Cardiology Ambulatory Setting
Jean A Connor1, Richard C Antonelli, Cheryl A OʼConnell
1Author Affiliations: Director of Nursing Research (Dr Connor), Program Administration Manager II (Ms Porter), and Vice President (Dr Hickey), Cardiovascular and Critical Care Nursing Patient Services; Project Coordinator, Cardiology (Ms Kuzdeba); Associate Chief Nursing Officer (Dr Hickey); and Medical Director of Integrated Care (Dr Antonelli), Boston Children's Hospital; and Clinical Instructor (Dr Connor), Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Drs Hickey and Antonelli), Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts; Director of CSU/CVSL (Ms O'Connell), Marin General Hospital, Greenbrae, California.
Abstract:
The role of ambulatory nursing is diverse, and the impact on patient outcomes is difficult to measure. The concept of care coordination is an important focus for the ambulatory nurse. We describe the efforts to implement the Cardiac Care Coordination Measurement Tool to document and quantify care coordination activities in a pediatric cardiac ambulatory setting.
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