The experiences of family members in the nursing home to hospital transfer decision

Kathleen Abrahamson; Brittany Bernard; Lara Magnabosco; Arif Nazir; Kathleen T. Unroe

doi:10.1186/s12877-016-0359-2

The experiences of family members in the nursing home to hospital transfer decision

Kathleen Abrahamson, Brittany Bernard, Lara Magnabosco, Arif Nazir, Kathleen T. Unroe

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Background: The objective of this study was to better understand the experiences of family members in the nursing home to hospital transfer decision making process. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 20 family members who had recently been involved in a nursing home to hospital transfer decision. Results: Family members perceived themselves to play an advocacy role in their resident's care and interview themes clustered within three over-arching categories: Family perception of the nursing home's capacity to provide medical care: Resident and family choices; and issues at 'hand-off' and the hospital. Multiple sub-themes were also identified. Conclusions: Findings from this study contribute to knowledge surrounding the nursing home transfer decision by illuminating the experiences of family members in the transfer decision process.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	184
Pages (from-to)	1-7
Number of pages	7
Journal	BMC Geriatrics
Volume	16
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-016-0359-2
State	Published - Nov 15 2016
Externally published	Yes

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