Patient Transfer

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A quality assurance program for an inpatient department of ophthalmology. 'Indicators and criteria'. 
  • A summative evaluation of an EMS partnership aimed at reducing ED length of stay. 
  • Administration of thrombolytic therapy in the community hospital: established principles and unresolved issues. 
  • Alignment of site versus adjudication committee-based diagnosis with patient outcomes: Insights from the Providing Rapid Out of Hospital Acute Cardiovascular Treatment 3 trial. 
  • Anesthesia for interventional neuroradiology. 
  • Association between the timing of surgery for complicated, left-sided infective endocarditis and survival. 
  • Association of Nondisease-Specific Problems with Mortality, Long-Term Care, and Functional Impairment among Older Adults Who Require Skilled Nursing Care after Dialysis Initiation. 
  • Association of Rapid Care Process Implementation on Reperfusion Times Across Multiple ST-Segment-Elevation Myocardial Infarction Networks. 
  • Association of door-in to door-out time with reperfusion delays and outcomes among patients transferred for primary percutaneous coronary intervention. 
  • Association of hospice patients' income and care level with place of death. 
  • Benefit of facilitated percutaneous coronary intervention in high-risk ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction patients presenting to nonpercutaneous coronary intervention hospitals. 
  • Burden of 30-Day Readmissions After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in 833,344 Patients in the United States: Predictors, Causes, and Cost: Insights From the Nationwide Readmission Database. 
  • Can we make postoperative patient handovers safer? A systematic review of the literature. 
  • Care Transitions After Acute Myocardial Infarction for Transferred-In Versus Direct-Arrival Patients. 
  • Care processes associated with quicker door-in-door-out times for patients with ST-elevation-myocardial infarction requiring transfer: results from a statewide regionalization program. 
  • Case shifting and the Medicare Prospective Payment System. 
  • Clinician perceptions of operating room to intensive care unit handoffs and implications for patient safety: a qualitative study. 
  • Comparison of Acute Ischemic Stroke Care and Outcomes Between Comprehensive Stroke Centers and Primary Stroke Centers in the United States. 
  • Continuing care retirement communities: prospects for reducing institutional long-term care. 
  • Delay to reperfusion in patients with acute myocardial infarction presenting to acute care hospitals: an international perspective. 
  • Determining the cost economic "tipping point" for the addition of a regional percutaneous coronary intervention facility. 
  • Direct Transfer From the Referring Hospitals to the Catheterization Laboratory to Minimize Reperfusion Delays for Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: Insights From the National Cardiovascular Data Registry. 
  • Door-to-balloon times for patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction requiring interhospital transfer for primary percutaneous coronary intervention: a report from the national cardiovascular data registry. 
  • Duration to Admission and Hospital Transfers Affect Facility Rankings from the Postacute 30-Day Rehospitalization Quality Measure. 
  • Dynamics and clinical implications of the nursing home-hospital interface. 
  • Effect of inborn vs. outborn delivery on neurodevelopmental outcomes in infants with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy: secondary analyses of the NICHD whole-body cooling trial. 
  • Endovascular repair is associated with superior clinical outcomes in patients transferred for treatment of ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms. 
  • Epidemiology of a large telestroke cohort in the Delaware valley. 
  • Epidemiology of facial fracture injuries. 
  • Evaluating the Feasibility and Acceptability of a Telehealth Program in a Rural Palliative Care Population: TapCloud for Palliative Care. 
  • Expansion of a regional ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction system to an entire state. 
  • Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation and Interfacility Transfer: A Regional Referral Experience. 
  • Factors associated with transfer of hand injuries to a level 1 trauma center: a descriptive analysis of 1147 cases. 
  • Fibrinolysis use among patients requiring interhospital transfer for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction care: a report from the US National Cardiovascular Data Registry. 
  • Handoffs in the era of duty hours reform: a focused review and strategy to address changes in the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Common Program Requirements. 
  • Health Optimization Program for Elders: Improving the Transition From Hospital to Skilled Nursing Facility. 
  • Impact of Regional Systems of Care on Disparities in Care Among Female and Black Patients Presenting With ST-Segment-Elevation Myocardial Infarction. 
  • Implementation of a Regional Network for ST-Segment-Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI) Care and 30-Day Mortality in a Low- to Middle-Income City in Brazil: Findings From Salvador's STEMI Registry (RESISST). 
  • Incorporating Patient Acuity Rating Score Into Patient Handoffs and the Correlation With Rapid Responses and Unexpected ICU Transfers. 
  • Independent Association Between Preoperative Cognitive Status and Discharge Location After Surgery: A Strategy to Reduce Resource Use After Surgery for Deformity. 
  • Influence of transfer-in rates on quality of care and outcomes at receiving hospitals in patients with non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. 
  • Initial management of pediatric head trauma. 
  • Intensive care in critical access hospitals. 
  • Interhospital ECMO Transport: Regional Focus. 
  • Interventions to improve transitional care between nursing homes and hospitals: a systematic review. 
  • Intrahospital Transport of the Critically Ill Adult: A Standardized Evaluation Plan. 
  • Is an Admission for Decompensated Heart Failure Inevitable? 
  • Is there no place like home? Caregivers recall reasons for and experience upon transfer from home hospice to inpatient facilities. 
  • Ischemic Stroke Transfer Patterns in the Northeast United States. 
  • Medicare prospective payment and posthospital transfers to subacute care. 
  • Minimal Impact of Implemented Early Warning Score and Best Practice Alert for Patient Deterioration. 
  • Multi-institutional comparison of helicopter transfers directly to the operating room versus the pit stop in the emergency department. 
  • Nationwide Analysis of Patients With ST-Segment-Elevation Myocardial Infarction Transferred for Primary Percutaneous Intervention: Findings From the American Heart Association Mission: Lifeline Program. 
  • Objective measures of adoption of patient lift and transfer devices to reduce nursing staff injuries in the hospital setting. 
  • One-year trajectories of care and resource utilization for recipients of prolonged mechanical ventilation: a cohort study. 
  • Operating room to intensive care unit handoffs and the risks of patient harm. 
  • Outcomes Among Patients Transferred for Revascularization With Impella for Acute Myocardial Infarction With Cardiogenic Shock from the cVAD Registry. 
  • Outpatient transition to extended-release injectable naltrexone for patients with opioid use disorder: A phase 3 randomized trial. 
  • Patient outcomes after fibrinolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction at hospitals with and without coronary revascularization capability. 
  • Patterns of transfer for patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndrome from community to tertiary care hospitals. 
  • Pennsylvania's Focus on Heart Attack--grading the scorecard. 
  • Practice patterns and clinical outcomes among non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndrome (NSTE-ACS) patients presenting to primary and tertiary hospitals: insights from the EARLY glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibition in NSTE-ACS (EARLY-ACS) trial. 
  • Preoperative Frailty Increases Risk of Nonhome Discharge after Elective Vascular Surgery in Home-Dwelling Patients. 
  • Preparing Clinicians for Transitioning Patients Across Care Settings and Into the Home Through Simulation. 
  • Primary PCI in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. 
  • Putting patients at the center of kidney care transitions: PREPARE NOW, a cluster randomized controlled trial. 
  • Randomized Trial of Population-Based Clinical Decision Support to Facilitate Care Transitions. 
  • Rates, Characteristics, and Outcomes of Patients Transferred to Specialized Stroke Centers for Advanced Care. 
  • Rationale and strategies for implementing community-based transfer protocols for primary percutaneous coronary intervention for acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. 
  • Reducing health disparities: Bar Ilan Medical School's care transition service. 
  • Regional Systems of Care Demonstration Project: American Heart Association Mission: Lifeline STEMI Systems Accelerator. 
  • Relationship of the distance between non-PCI hospitals and primary PCI centers, mode of transport, and reperfusion time among ground and air interhospital transfers using NCDR's ACTION Registry-GWTG: a report from the American Heart Association Mission: Lifeline Program. 
  • Reperfusion strategies in acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: a comprehensive review of contemporary management options. 
  • Resident learning across the full range of core competencies through a transitions of care curriculum. 
  • Risk Factors and Independent Predictors of 30-Day Readmission for Altered Mental Status After Elective Spine Surgery for Spine Deformity: A Single-Institutional Study of 1090 Patients. 
  • Say what you mean to say: improving patient handoffs in the operating room and beyond. 
  • Shifting Medicare patients out of the hospital. 
  • Standardizing postoperative PICU handovers improves handover metrics and patient outcomes. 
  • Systems-Based Practice to Improve Care Within and Beyond the Emergency Department. 
  • The Association of Transfer Rate From Hospitals Without Revascularization Capabilities and Mortality Risk for Older Non-ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction Patients. 
  • The authors reply. 
  • The effect of high-risk ST elevation myocardial infarction transfer patients on risk-adjusted in-hospital mortality: A report from the American Heart Association Mission: Lifeline program. 
  • The effect of transfers between health care facilities on costs and length of stay for pediatric burn patients. 
  • The everlasting effect of primary percutaneous coronary intervention--even after transport? 
  • The impact of a statewide pre-hospital STEMI strategy to bypass hospitals without percutaneous coronary intervention capability on treatment times. 
  • The impact of for-profit hospital status on the care and outcomes of patients with non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: results from the CRUSADE Initiative. 
  • The impact of place of enrollment and delay to reperfusion on 90-day post-infarction mortality in the ASSENT-4 PCI trial: assessment of the safety and efficacy of a new treatment strategy with percutaneous coronary intervention. 
  • The quality of antiplatelet and anticoagulant medication administration among ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction patients transferred for primary percutaneous coronary intervention. 
  • The structure of critical care transfer networks. 
  • The use of vasoactive agents via peripheral intravenous access during transport of critically III infants and children. 
  • Therapeutic value of eptifibatide at community hospitals transferring patients to tertiary referral centers early after admission for acute coronary syndromes. PURSUIT Investigators. 
  • Timing of First Postdischarge Follow-up and Medication Adherence After Acute Myocardial Infarction. 
  • To transfer or not to transfer: acute myocardial infarction reperfusion. 
  • Tracking Patients in Community-Based Palliative Care through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Healthcare Innovation Project. 
  • Transfer times and outcomes in patients with ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction undergoing interhospital transfer for primary percutaneous coronary intervention: APEX-AMI insights. 
  • Transition of Care from the Emergency Department to the Outpatient Setting: A Mixed-Methods Analysis. 
  • Transport time and care processes for patients transferred with ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction: the reperfusion in acute myocardial infarction in Carolina emergency rooms experience. 
  • Trends in postoperative length of stay after bypass surgery. 
  • Two decades' experience with interfacility transport on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. 
  • Use of Assistive Devices to Lift, Transfer, and Reposition Hospital Patients. 
  • Use of a physiologic scoring system during interhospital transport of pediatric patients. 
  • Use, Temporal Trends, and Outcomes of Endovascular Therapy After Interhospital Transfer in the United States. 
  • Variation in pediatric traumatic brain injury outcomes in the United States. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Andolsek, Kathryn Marijoan, Professor in Family Medicine and Community Health, School of Medicine
  • O'Connor, Christopher Michael, Richard Sean Stack, M.D. / Guidant Foundation Distinguished Professor of Cardiology, Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology
  • Segall, Noa, Assistant Professor in Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology