Interventions to Reduce Acute Care Transfers (INTERACT)

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Introduction

A quality improvement intervention that includes a set of tools and strategies designed to assist NH staff in early identification, assessment, communication, and documentation about changes in resident status

tools include
- Stop and Watch Checklist
- Situation Background Assessment Recommendation (SBAR)
- nursing home-specific guidelines
educating families about capabilities within the facility & limitations of hospitalization helps to promote realistic expectations^[4]

↑ Tena-Nelson R et al Reducing potentially preventable hospital transfers: results from a thirty nursing home collaborative. J Am Med Dir Assoc. 2012 Sep;13(7):651-6 PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22835484
↑ Lamb G et al Avoidability of hospital transfers of nursing home residents: perspectives of frontline staff. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2011 Sep;59(9):1665-72 PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21883105
↑ Ouslander JG et al Interventions to reduce hospitalizations from nursing homes: evaluation of the INTERACT II collaborative quality improvement project. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2011 Apr;59(4):745-53 PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21410447
Ouslander JG, Bonner A, Herndon L, Shutes J. The Interventions to Reduce Acute Care Transfers (INTERACT) quality improvement program: an overview for medical directors and primary care clinicians in long term care. J Am Med Dir Assoc. 2014 Mar;15(3):162-70. Review. PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24513226 Free PMC Article
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 Geriatric Review Syllabus, 9th edition (GRS9) Medinal-Walpole A, Pacala JT, Porter JF (eds) American Geriatrics Society, 2016
↑ Interventions to Reduce Acute Care Transfers http://interact2.net/