Telephone follow-up initiated by a hospital-based health professional, for postdischarge problems in patients discharged from hospital to home

Abstract

Telephone follow-up initiated by a hospital-based health professional for postdischarge problems in patients discharged from hospital to home. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews: 2003, nr. 4, p.

Do Post Discharge Phone Calls Improve Care Transitions? A Cluster-Randomized Trial

“…First, the implementation fidelity of the discharge phone calls was 69%, possibly reducing the effect of the intervention. This is however, consistent with other studies of post discharge phone calls [8] and an on-treatment analysis yielded similar results. Second, the primary outcome of CTM-3 scores was collected 30 days post discharge and may be subject to recall bias.…”

Do Post Discharge Phone Calls Improve Care Transitions? A Cluster-Randomized Trial

“…First, the implementation fidelity of the discharge phone calls was 69%, possibly reducing the effect of the intervention. This is however, consistent with other studies of post discharge phone calls [8] and an on-treatment analysis yielded similar results. Second, the primary outcome of CTM-3 scores was collected 30 days post discharge and may be subject to recall bias.…”

Telephone follow-up for cataract surgery: feasibility and patient satisfaction study

“…However, there is equal responsibility on the doctor or nurse conducting the interview to actively probe for potentially dangerous symptoms. In a Cochrane review that assessed if TFU is an effective intervention in reducing post-discharge problems, there were no adverse events recorded across the 33 studies included, suggesting that it is indeed a very safe intervention (Mistiaen and Poot, 2006). Our study, together with numerous others, show high levels of patient satisfaction (Braun et al, 2009;Gray et al, 2010;Brooksbank et al, 2014).…”

Effects of post‐discharge telephone calls on the rate of emergency department visits in paediatric patients

“…There is a wide range of studies evaluating the benefit of a post‐discharge telephone call. Unfortunately, most of the data are obtained from low patient numbers and had high risk of bias 20,21 . In this study, we found that 33–73% ED visits shortly after hospital discharge was related to the prior hospitalisation and potentially related to poor care.…”

Do Post Discharge Phone Calls Improve Care Transitions? A Cluster-Randomized Trial

“…First, the implementation fidelity of the discharge phone calls was 69%, possibly reducing the effect of the intervention. This is however, consistent with other studies of post discharge phone calls [8] and an on-treatment analysis yielded similar results. Second, the primary outcome of CTM-3 scores was collected 30 days post discharge and may be subject to recall bias.…”

Telephone follow-up for cataract surgery: feasibility and patient satisfaction study

“…However, there is equal responsibility on the doctor or nurse conducting the interview to actively probe for potentially dangerous symptoms. In a Cochrane review that assessed if TFU is an effective intervention in reducing post-discharge problems, there were no adverse events recorded across the 33 studies included, suggesting that it is indeed a very safe intervention (Mistiaen and Poot, 2006). Our study, together with numerous others, show high levels of patient satisfaction (Braun et al, 2009;Gray et al, 2010;Brooksbank et al, 2014).…”

Effects of post‐discharge telephone calls on the rate of emergency department visits in paediatric patients

“…There is a wide range of studies evaluating the benefit of a post‐discharge telephone call. Unfortunately, most of the data are obtained from low patient numbers and had high risk of bias 20,21 . In this study, we found that 33–73% ED visits shortly after hospital discharge was related to the prior hospitalisation and potentially related to poor care.…”

Do Post Discharge Phone Calls Improve Care Transitions? A Cluster-Randomized Trial

“…First, the implementation fidelity of the discharge phone calls was 69%, possibly reducing the effect of the intervention. This is however, consistent with other studies of post discharge phone calls [8] and an on-treatment analysis yielded similar results. Second, the primary outcome of CTM-3 scores was collected 30 days post discharge and may be subject to recall bias.…”

Telephone follow-up for cataract surgery: feasibility and patient satisfaction study

“…However, there is equal responsibility on the doctor or nurse conducting the interview to actively probe for potentially dangerous symptoms. In a Cochrane review that assessed if TFU is an effective intervention in reducing post-discharge problems, there were no adverse events recorded across the 33 studies included, suggesting that it is indeed a very safe intervention (Mistiaen and Poot, 2006). Our study, together with numerous others, show high levels of patient satisfaction (Braun et al, 2009;Gray et al, 2010;Brooksbank et al, 2014).…”

Effects of post‐discharge telephone calls on the rate of emergency department visits in paediatric patients

“…There is a wide range of studies evaluating the benefit of a post‐discharge telephone call. Unfortunately, most of the data are obtained from low patient numbers and had high risk of bias 20,21 . In this study, we found that 33–73% ED visits shortly after hospital discharge was related to the prior hospitalisation and potentially related to poor care.…”