Patient experiences of in-hospital preparations for follow-up care at home.

Aims And Objectives: To examine patient experiences of hospital-based discharge preparation for referral for follow-up home care services. To identify aspects of discharge preparation that will assist patients with their transition from hospital-based care to home-based follow-up care.

Background: To improve patients' transitions from hospital-based care to community-based home care, hospitals incorporate home care referral processes into discharge planning.

Reasons for returning to the emergency department following discharge from an internal medicine unit: perspectives of patients and the liaison nurse clinician.

Aims And Objectives: To understand the patients' reasons for returning to the emergency department soon after their discharge from an internal medicine unit and to compare these reasons with the liaison nurse clinician's risk assessment tools used for discharge planning.

Background: Returns to the emergency departments soon after discharge from the hospital are a recurrent problem. Factors precipitating readmission to hospital have been analysed through the lens of health care providers, but few studies have explored the patients' perspectives on their reasons for returning to the emergency departments.

A "basket of care" for heart failure patients managing at home: evaluating a community-based nursing intervention from a patient's perspective.

Background: Patients with heart failure (HF) in the community represent a large and growing patient population whose complex care requires implementation of innovative care modalities. The Centre Hospitalier--Centre de Sante et de Services Sociaux--Corridor of Service for Heart Failure Patients (CH-CSSS-CSHFP) represents a novel approach to address the challenges of delivering comprehensive care to HF patients in the community.

Purpose: In this study, the researchers aimed to answer the question: What is the patient's perception of care received in the CH-CSSS-CSHFP?

Method: A descriptive qualitative design and semistructured interviews guided the inquiry.