Improving the ED-to-Home Transition: The Community Paramedic-Delivered Care Transitions Intervention-Preliminary Findings.
Manish N ShahMatthew M HollanderCourtney Mc JonesThomas V CaprioYeates ConwellJeremy T CushmanEva H DuGoffAmy J H KindMichael LohmeierRanran MiEric A ColemanPublished in: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (2018)
Although final conclusions about program effectiveness must await the results of the randomized controlled trial, the findings reported here are promising and provide preliminary support for an ED-to-home CTI Program's ability to improve outcomes. The coaches' identity as community paramedics is particularly noteworthy, because this is a unique role for this provider type. J Am Geriatr Soc 66:2213-2220, 2018.