Utilizing Family-Centered Process and Outcome Measures to Assess Hospital-to-Home Transition Quality

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pediatrics (AD Desai, TD Simon, and R Mangione-Smith), University of Washington, Seattle; Seattle Children's Research Institute (AD Desai, TD Simon, and R Mangione-Smith). Electronic address: arti.desai@seattlechildrens.org.
² Department of Pediatrics (AD Desai, TD Simon, and R Mangione-Smith), University of Washington, Seattle; Seattle Children's Research Institute (AD Desai, TD Simon, and R Mangione-Smith).
³ Department of Pediatrics & The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice (JK Leyenaar), Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, NH.
⁴ James M. Anderson Center for Health Systems Excellence (MT Britto), Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Ohio.

Review

Arti D Desai et al. Acad Pediatr. 2018 Nov-Dec.

. 2018 Nov-Dec;18(8):843-846.

doi: 10.1016/j.acap.2018.07.013. Epub 2018 Aug 2.

¹ Department of Pediatrics (AD Desai, TD Simon, and R Mangione-Smith), University of Washington, Seattle; Seattle Children's Research Institute (AD Desai, TD Simon, and R Mangione-Smith). Electronic address: arti.desai@seattlechildrens.org.
² Department of Pediatrics (AD Desai, TD Simon, and R Mangione-Smith), University of Washington, Seattle; Seattle Children's Research Institute (AD Desai, TD Simon, and R Mangione-Smith).
³ Department of Pediatrics & The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice (JK Leyenaar), Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, NH.
⁴ James M. Anderson Center for Health Systems Excellence (MT Britto), Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Ohio.

No abstract available

Keywords: emergency medicine; hospitalists; hospitals; inpatients; outcome and process assessment (health care) pediatrics; quality of care.

Conflict of interest statement

The authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose.

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