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How Social Connectedness Helps Patients Stay Home After Hospital at Home Enrollment: A Mixed Methods Study
BackgroundWhile enrolled in Hospital at Home (HaH) programs, patients rely on their social network to provide supportive behaviors that are routinely...
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Outcomes from an Early Adopters Home Hospital Accelerator for Acute Care at Home
BackgroundFollowing the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ approval of the Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver, an increasing number of...
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The hospital-to-home care transition experience of home care clients: an exploratory study using patient journey map**
BackgroundCare transitions have a significant impact on patient health outcomes and care experience. However, there is limited research on how...
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Family caregivers of children transitioning hospital to home receiving nasogastric feeding: descriptive qualitative study
BackgroundNasogastric tube (NGT) feeding is used for children unable to tolerate adequate nutrition orally to sustain growth and development. This...
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Inpatient-level care at home delivered by virtual wards and hospital at home: a systematic review and meta-analysis of complex interventions and their components
BackgroundTechnology-enabled inpatient-level care at home services, such as virtual wards and hospital at home, are being rapidly implemented. This...
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Hospital-Level Care at Home for Patients with Cirrhosis
BackgroundPatients with cirrhosis have a 30-day readmission rate of over 30%. Novel care delivery models are needed to reduce healthcare costs and...
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A comparison of opioid dose between home palliative care and hospital palliative care
ObjectiveWhile opioids are a key part of palliative care, few studies have evaluated opioid demand in the home care context. This study aims to...
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The role of digital technology in surgical home hospital programs
Home hospital (HH), a care delivery model of providing hospital-grade care to patients in their homes, has become increasingly common in medical...
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The hospital at home in the USA: current status and future prospects
The annual cost of hospital care services in the US has risen to over $1 trillion despite relatively worse health outcomes compared to similar...
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Resource Utilization Groups in transitional home care: validating the RUG-III/HC case-mix system in hospital-to-home care programs
BackgroundTransitional hospital-to-home care programs support safe and timely transition from acute care settings back into the community. Case-mix...
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Impact of Frailty on Gait Speed Improvements in Home Health after Hospital Discharge: Secondary Analysis of Two Randomized Controlled Trials
More than half of older adults are frail or prefrail in the United States, and hospital-associated deconditioning likely increases this risk....
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The future of hospital at home: a qualitative interview study of healthcare staff
PurposeHospital at Home (HaH) services are expanding to provide acute multidisciplinary care in an individual's home. In this pilot study, we...
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The PLET (Portable Laparoscopic Endo-Trainer) study: a randomized controlled trial of home- versus hospital-based surgical training
PurposeThe purpose of this study was to assess the effect of training with a personal, portable laparoscopic endo-trainer (PLET) on residents’...
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Early discharge hospital at home as alternative to routine hospital care for older people: a systematic review and meta-analysis
BackgroundThe global population of adults aged 60 and above surpassed 1 billion in 2020, constituting 13.5% of the global populace. Projections...
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Perspectives on supporting Veterans’ social needs during hospital to home health transitions: findings from the Transitions Nurse Program
BackgroundVeterans who need post-acute home health care (HHC) are at risk for adverse outcomes and unmet social needs. Veterans’ social needs could...
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Hospital at home: emergence of a high-value model of care delivery
BackgroundWith increasing healthcare demands for acute illness in patients especially in the times of pandemic, healthcare organizations require...
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Evaluation of the nurse-assisted eHealth intervention ‘eHealth@Hospital-2-Home’ on self-care by patients with heart failure and colorectal cancer post-hospital discharge: protocol for a randomised controlled trial
BackgroundPatients with heart failure (HF) and colorectal cancer (CRC) are prone to comorbidity, a high rate of readmission, and complex healthcare...
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Associations between care home residents’ characteristics and acute hospital admissions – a retrospective, register-based cross-sectional study
BackgroundCare home residents are frail, multi-morbid, and have an increased risk of experiencing acute hospitalisations and adverse events. This...
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Hospital-to-home transitions for children with medical complexity: part 1, a systematic review of reported outcomes
Outcome selection to evaluate interventions to support a successful transition from hospital to home of children with medical complexity (CMC) may be...
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Hospital-to-home transitions for children with medical complexity: part 2—a core outcome set
Appropriate outcome measures as part of high-quality intervention trials are critical to advancing hospital-to-home transitions for Children with...
