Quality Improvement Tool for Review of Acute Care Transfers - 100/pad

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INTERACT (Interventions to Reduce Acute Care Transfers) is a quality improvement program that focuses on the management of acute change in resident condition. The INTERACT program includes clinical and educational tools and strategies for use in every day practice in long-term care facilities. The goal is to improve care and reduce the frequency of potentially avoidable transfers to the acute hospital. Click Here for more information.

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Description

Quality improvement is a key component of the INTERACT program. On a regular basis, hospital transfers should be reviewed to see if there are opportunities to educate staff and improve care.

This QI tool is designed to help analyze hospital transfers (including ER visits, observation stay and admissions) and identify opportunities to reduce transfers that might be preventable.

Complete this tool for each, or a representative sample of, hospital transfers in order to conduct a root cause analysis and identify common reasons for transfers.

Features

Side One documents:
- Resident Characteristics such as major diagnoses and conditions that put the resident at risk for hospital admission or readmission
- Acute change in condition and other non-clinical factors that contributed to the transfer such as including condition changes, new signs/symptoms and abnormal lab values
Side Two documents:
- Actions taken to evaluate and manage the change in condition prior to transfer
- Description of the hospital transfer
- Opportunities for improvement
For use by the INTERACT champion, facility leadership and members of the facility quality committee
Convenient minimum order quantity of 100 per pad

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