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  • Healthcare Quality Improvement
  • Patient Transition Management
  • Home Healthcare Services

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  • The Hospital-to-Home-Health Transition Quality (H3TQ) Index was developed to enable skilled home healthcare (HH) agencies to identify potential threats to safe and high-quality care transitions in real time.
  • Assessing the validity of the H3TQ Index is crucial for its widespread adoption and effectiveness in diverse healthcare settings.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the construct, concurrent, and predictive validity of the H3TQ Index.
  • To assess the H3TQ Index's ability to identify real-time quality issues in care transitions for older adults receiving home healthcare.

Main Methods:

  • A survey was conducted with recently hospitalized older adults referred for skilled HH services and their HH providers across two agencies in Baltimore, MD, and New York, NY.
  • Participants included 309 older adults, 141 informal caregivers, and 137 HH providers, who rated 747 unique transitions.
  • Validity was assessed using the H3TQ Index, the Care Transition Measure (CTM), and Medicare Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS) data.

Main Results:

  • Older adults and caregivers generally rated transitions as higher quality than did HH providers (P<0.05).
  • The H3TQ Index demonstrated construct validity with CTM-3 and concurrent validity with OASIS measures.
  • H3TQ scores did not significantly correlate with 30-day emergency department visits or rehospitalizations, indicating a lack of predictive validity.

Conclusions:

  • The H3TQ Index is valuable for real-time identification of care transition quality issues and shows construct and concurrent validity.
  • Collecting multiple perspectives (patient, caregiver, provider) is essential for a comprehensive evaluation of care transition quality.
  • Implementing the H3TQ Index can help pinpoint opportunities for interventions to improve HH patient transitions.