Development and evaluation of a Continuity of Care Checklist for improving orthopaedic patient discharge from hospital

A Chinese version of the Patient Continuity of Care Questionnaire: reliability and validity assessment

“…Hadjistavropoulos et al . () successfully developed the PCCQ to assist professionals to fully understand the CoC of the discharged patients in an Orthopedics Department. Up to the present time, Taiwan's government has pushed discharge planning services to be implemented in every hospital setting in order to improve patient CoC.…”

“…To make it possible for patients to receive medical care that will facilitate improvement in their condition and help them obtain related health knowledge and self-care skills, well-planned hospitalisation care and follow-up care arrangements should be applied to help reduce the length of stay, improve bed usage, improve hospital service quality and further achieve cost control (Allen et al 2014, Blecker et al 2014, Fukuda et al 2015. The literature shows that the PCCQ can be used to understand the essential components of patient CoC based on the patients' experiences (Medina-Mirapeix et al 2011). Hadjistavropoulos et al (2009 successfully developed the PCCQ to assist professionals to fully understand the CoC of the discharged patients in an Orthopedics Department.…”

Nurses’ information exchange during older patient transfer: prevalence and associations with patient and transfer characteristics

“…There has been increasing focus on the importance of continuity of care in improving preventive care, fewer hospitalizations, and patient outcomes and satisfaction [3, 5, 25–28], and this has been accompanied by a discussion aimed at clarifying the concept of continuity of care [29, 30]. A widely used framework, introduced by Haggerty et al [31] and later adopted by Freeman et al [32], describes three essential types of continuity of care: relational, management, and informational.…”

Validation of an instrument to assess the homecare competency of the family caregiver of a person with chronic disease

“…A close relationship is identified among the categories proposed in the instrument with some scales that have been used to guide or measure the transition plan and that of discharge in the world, focused on characteristics of integrity, security, and continuity. Hadjistavropoulos et al 17 Kenner and Boykova 18 applied the "Kenner discharge questionnaire" to look into the parental experience of parents of newborn children. This is a standardized test in English, which proved valid and reliable in the review of the experiences of parents with care and social support.…”