Oncology Medical Home: ASCO and COA Standards.

Purpose: To provide Standards on the basis of evidence and expert consensus for a pilot of the Oncology Medical Home (OMH) certification program. The OMH model is a system of care delivery that features coordinated, efficient, accessible, and evidence-based care and includes a process for measurement of outcomes to facilitate continuous quality improvement. The OMH pilot is intended to inform further refinement of Standards for OMH model implementation.

A Predictive Risk Model for Infection-Related Hospitalization Among Home Healthcare Patients.

Infection prevention is a high priority for home healthcare (HHC), but tools are lacking to identify patients at highest risk of developing infections. The purpose of this study was to develop and test a predictive risk model to identify HHC patients at risk of an infection-related hospitalization or emergency department visit. A nonexperimental study using secondary data was conducted.

Pain-Related Drug Use Among Older Adults With Activity Limiting Pain Who Received Home Care Services.

Pain is a common problem for patients receiving home care, often limiting mobility and contributing to functional decline. Pharmacological pain management is common, but all drugs bring some risk of side effects and adverse reactions. The opioid epidemic has brought into question analgesic prescribing patterns across all care settings.

Risk Factors for Long-term Mortality and Patterns of End-of-Life Care Among Medicare Sepsis Survivors Discharged to Home Health Care.

Importance: Despite a growing recognition of the increased mortality risk among sepsis survivors, little is known about the patterns of end-of-life care among this population.

Objective: To describe patterns of end-of-life care among a national sample of sepsis survivors and identify factors associated with long-term mortality risk and hospice use.

Design, Setting, And Participants: This cohort study assessed sepsis survivors who were Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries discharged to home health care using national Medicare administrative, claims, and home health assessment data from 2013 to 2014.

Sepsis Survivors Transitioned to Home Health Care: Characteristics and Early Readmission Risk Factors.

Objective: To profile the characteristics of growing numbers of sepsis survivors receiving home healthcare (HHC) by type of sepsis before, during, and after a sepsis hospitalization and identify characteristics significantly associated with 7-day readmission.

Design: Cross-sectional descriptive study. Data sources included the Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS) and Medicare administrative and claims data.