Effectiveness of a transition plan at discharge of patients hospitalized with heart failure: a before-and-after study.

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Title
Effectiveness of a transition plan at discharge of patients hospitalized with heart failure: a before-and-after study.
Journal
ESC heart failure
Author(s)
Garnier A., Rouiller N., Gachoud D., Nachar C., Voirol P., Griesser A.C., Uhlmann M., Waeber G., Lamy O.
ISSN
2055-5822 (Electronic)
ISSN-L
2055-5822
Publication state
Published
Issued date
08/2018
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
5
Number
4
Pages
657-667
Language
english
Notes
Publication types: Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Publication Status: ppublish
Abstract
We evaluated the effectiveness of a multidisciplinary transition plan to reduce early readmission among heart failure patients.
We conducted a before-and-after study in a tertiary internal medicine department, comparing 3 years of retrospective data (pre-intervention) and 13 months of prospective data (intervention period). Intervention was the introduction in 2013 of a transition plan performed by a multidisciplinary team. We included all consecutive patients hospitalized with symptomatic heart failure and discharged to home. The outcomes were the fraction of days spent in hospital because of readmission, based on the sum of all days spent in hospital, and the rate of readmission. The same measurements were used for those with potentially avoidable readmissions. Four hundred thirty-one patients were included and compared with 1441 patients in the pre-intervention period. Of the 431 patients, 138 received the transition plan while 293 were non-completers. Neither the fraction of days spent for readmissions nor the rate of readmission decreased during the intervention period. However, non-completers had a higher rate of the fraction of days spent for 30 day readmission (19.2% vs. 16.1%, P = 0.002) and for potentially avoidable readmission (9.8% vs. 13.2%, P = 0.001). The rate of potentially avoidable readmission decreased from 11.3% (before) to 9.9% (non-completers) and 8.7% (completers), reaching the adjusted expected range given by SQLape® (7.7-9.1%).
A transition plan, requiring many resources, could decrease potentially avoidable readmission but shows no benefit on overall readmission. Future research should focus on potentially avoidable readmissions and other indicators such as patient satisfaction, adverse drug events, or adherence.
Keywords
Aged, Female, Follow-Up Studies, Heart Failure/therapy, Humans, Length of Stay/trends, Male, Patient Discharge/trends, Patient Readmission/trends, Reproducibility of Results, Retrospective Studies, Switzerland, Time Factors, Transitional Care/organization & administration, Discharge plan, Heart failure, Potentially avoidable readmission, Readmission, Transitional care
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Web of science
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Yes
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