The transition from hospital to home can be fraught with danger for several reasons, including lack of access to specialist equipment, medication and care. Patients discharged from hospital are often still recovering from acute or chronic conditions and may not have relatives or nursing staff on hand to provide help with day to day tasks and transport to and from their doctors' surgery. In response, a number of organisations, including Naylor, have developed transitions models to help plug the gap.
The transition from hospital to home can be fraught with danger for several reasons, including lack of access to specialist equipment, medication and care. Patients discharged from hospital are often still recovering from acute or chronic conditions and may not have relatives or nursing staff on hand to provide help with day to day tasks and transport to and from their doctors' surgery. In response, a number of organisations, including the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, have developed transitions models to help plug the gap.