Lessons Learned From Root Cause Analyses of Transfers of Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Patients to Acute Hospitals: Transfers Rated as Preventable Versus Nonpreventable by SNF Staff

Joseph G. Ouslander*, Ilkin Naharci, Gabriella Engstrom, Jill Shutes, David G. Wolf, Graig Alpert, Carolina Rojido, Ruth M. Tappen, David Newman

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Original languageAmerican English
Pages (from-to)596-601
Number of pages6
JournalJournal of the American Medical Directors Association
Volume17
Issue number7
Early online dateMar 24 2016
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 1 2016
Externally publishedYes

Bibliographical note

Copyright © 2016 AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • General Nursing
  • Health Policy
  • Geriatrics and Gerontology

Keywords

  • preventable hospitalizations
  • root cause analysis
  • Skilled nursing facility
  • Root Cause Analysis
  • Humans
  • Retrospective Studies
  • Patient Transfer/statistics & numerical data
  • Skilled Nursing Facilities
  • Emergency Service, Hospital/statistics & numerical data
  • Hospitalization/trends
  • Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic

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