Journal article
Transition of care for pediatric and adult patients with venous thromboembolism: A National Quality Improvement Project from the American Thrombosis and Hemostasis Network (ATHN)
Thrombosis research, Vol.200, pp.23-29
04/01/2021
DOI: 10.1016/j.thromres.2021.01.001
PMID: 33517168
Abstract
Background: Transition of care (TOC) for management of anticoagulation from inpatient to outpatient setting for patients with acute venous thromboembolism (VTE) poses serious safety concerns. We implemented a national quality improvement educational initiative to address this issue.
Methods: Pediatric and adult patients admitted for their first VTE were prospectively enrolled at 16 centers from January 2016 to December 2018. Patient demographics, VTE diagnosis, risk factors, and treatment characteristics were collected. There were two phases: pre-intervention (PI) and quality intervention (QI). The PI phase assessed the quality and patient understanding and satisfaction of anticoagulation instructions given at hospital discharge and adherence to these instructions via a patient and/or caregiver feedback questionnaire (PFQ) and a patient knowledge questionnaire (PKQ) at 30 days. The QI phase provided patient and/ or caregiver enhanced education regarding anticoagulation therapy and VTE at hospital discharge using a comprehensive discharge instruction module and a phone call follow-up at one week. Patient and/or caregiver knowledge at 7 and 30 days was assessed with the same PFQ and PKQ and compared to the PI baseline measures.
Results: Of the 409 study patients, 210 (51%) were adults, 218 (53%) females, and 316 (77%) White. Deep vein thrombosis (62.8%) and pulmonary embolism (47.9%) were the most common VTE in children and adults, respectively. Day 30 PFQ scores were significantly higher in the QI phase compared to the PI phase by 11% (p < 0.01). Day 30 PKQ demonstrated enhanced teaching (93.7% vs. 83.5%, p-value 0.004) and disease recognition (89.6% vs. 84.6% p = 0.03) in the QI phase than the PI phase.
Conclusion: Comprehensive VTE discharge instructions followed by a 1-week post-discharge phone call strengthen patient and caregiver knowledge, satisfaction of education given and care provided, and disease recognition.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Transition of care for pediatric and adult patients with venous thromboembolism: A National Quality Improvement Project from the American Thrombosis and Hemostasis Network (ATHN)
- Creators
- M. DeSancho - NewYork–Presbyterian HospitalJ. E. Munn - Michigan MedicineH. H. Billett - Albert Einstein College of MedicineD. Cheng - American Thrombosis and Hemostasis NetworkC. Holmes - University of VermontJ. Jaffray - Children's Hospital of Los AngelesM. Malone - Dartmouth Hitchcock Comprehensive Hemophilia & Thrombosis Center, Lebanon, NH, United States of AmericaK. Patel - Children's Healthcare of AtlantaA. Sharathkumar - University of IowaC. D. Thornburg - Rady Children's Hospital-San DiegoM. Wang - University of Colorado Anschutz Medical CampusC. Watson - American Thrombosis and Hemostasis NetworkM. Rajpurkar - Wayne State UniversityATHN Thrombosis Committee Study Investigators
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Thrombosis research, Vol.200, pp.23-29
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.thromres.2021.01.001
- PMID
- 33517168
- ISSN
- 0049-3848
- eISSN
- 1879-2472
- Number of pages
- 7
- Grant note
- 20694075 / Medical Education - Grants \ Pfizer
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 04/01/2021
- Academic Unit
- Stead Family Department of Pediatrics; Hematology/Oncology
- Record Identifier
- 9984354053202771
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