Root Cause Analyses of Transfers of Skilled Nursing Facility Patients to Acute Hospitals: Lessons Learned for Reducing Unnecessary Hospitalizations

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

doi:10.1016/j.jamda.2015.11.018

Root Cause Analyses of Transfers of Skilled Nursing Facility Patients to Acute Hospitals: Lessons Learned for Reducing Unnecessary Hospitalizations

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

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Original language	American English
Pages (from-to)	256-262
Number of pages	7
Journal	Journal of the American Medical Directors Association
Volume	17
Issue number	3
Early online date	Jan 14 2016
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2015.11.018
State	Published - Mar 1 2016
Externally published	Yes

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ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

General Nursing
Health Policy
Geriatrics and Gerontology

Keywords

Root cause analysis
Skilled nursing facilities
Unnecessary hospitalizations
Root Cause Analysis
United States
Humans
Length of Stay/statistics & numerical data
Hospitalization/statistics & numerical data
Retrospective Studies
Patient Transfer/statistics & numerical data
Skilled Nursing Facilities
Patient Readmission/statistics & numerical data

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Ouslander, J. G., Naharci, I., Engstrom, G., Shutes, J., Wolf, D. G., Alpert, G., Rojido, C., Tappen, R., & Newman, D. (2016). Root Cause Analyses of Transfers of Skilled Nursing Facility Patients to Acute Hospitals: Lessons Learned for Reducing Unnecessary Hospitalizations. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 17(3), 256-262. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2015.11.018

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Root Cause Analyses of Transfers of Skilled Nursing Facility Patients to Acute Hospitals: Lessons Learned for Reducing Unnecessary Hospitalizations. / Ouslander, Joseph G.; Naharci, Ilkin; Engstrom, Gabriella et al.
In: Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, Vol. 17, No. 3, 01.03.2016, p. 256-262.

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