Wood Sharon L
Sharon L. Wood, MSN, RN, College of Education, Nursing and Health Professionals, University of Hartford, West Hartford, Connecticut.
Home Healthc Now. 2015 Sep;33(8):431-6. doi: 10.1097/NHH.0000000000000280.
Hospital readmission rates have become the subject of national attention among healthcare providers. Home healthcare agencies work to bridge the gap between hospital and home/community, and share a vested interest in reducing hospital readmissions. Evidence supports the use of checklists to improve safety and decrease risk by reducing errors of omission, facilitating communication and improving clinician accountability. This article proposes that the use of checklists in home healthcare agencies may reduce rehospitalizations, and presents the experience of a large home healthcare agency's creation and implementation of a pilot study to introduce a home visit checklist.
医院再入院率已成为医疗服务提供者全国关注的焦点。家庭医疗保健机构致力于弥合医院与家庭/社区之间的差距，并且在降低医院再入院率方面有着共同的既得利益。有证据支持使用检查表来提高安全性并通过减少遗漏错误、促进沟通和提高临床医生的责任感来降低风险。本文提出在家庭医疗保健机构中使用检查表可能会减少再次住院的情况，并介绍了一家大型家庭医疗保健机构创建和实施一项引入家访检查表的试点研究的经验。
