Facilitating a Safe Transition From the Pediatric Emergency Department to Home With a Post-Discharge Phone Call: A Quality-Improvement Initiative to Improve Patient Safety

Because the urgent care facility is closed, the laboratory is calling the busy emergency department in search of someone to follow up with this result. [...]the pediatric patient is able to make a safer transition from our emergency department to the home.

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Published in:Journal of emergency nursing 2014-05, Vol.40 (3), p.245-252
Main Authors: Bucaro, Pamela J., Black, Erin
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accident and emergency departments
Anxiety
Child
Child, Preschool
Children & youth
Committees
Continuity of Patient Care - organization & administration
Emergency Nursing - methods
Emergency Service, Hospital - organization & administration
Families & family life
Female
Hospitals
Hospitals, Pediatric
Humans
Infant
Male
Medical records
Meetings
Monitoring, Physiologic - instrumentation
Monitoring, Physiologic - methods
Nurses
Nursing
Paediatrics
Patient care
Patient Discharge - standards
Patient Discharge - trends
Patient Safety
Patients
Quality Improvement
Risk Assessment
Safety measures
Telephone - statistics & numerical data
Webcasting
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Summary:Because the urgent care facility is closed, the laboratory is calling the busy emergency department in search of someone to follow up with this result. [...]the pediatric patient is able to make a safer transition from our emergency department to the home.
ISSN:0099-1767
1527-2966
DOI:10.1016/j.jen.2013.02.003