Multistate Competing Risk Analysis of Transition Back to the Community Among Long-Term Care Home (LTC) Destined Patients: A Brief Report.

Objective: The demand for long-term care in community and facilitybased settings in Canada is expected to increase with population growth. The Toronto Grace Health Center piloted an intervention program that aims to support return to the community of acute hospital patients designated for LTC placement. We investigated whether this program was effective in transitioning the program patients back to their homes in the community and the factors associated with transitioning patients to different destinations.

Novel Smart Sensor Platform for Monitoring Multiple Pressure Injury Risk Factors: A Feasibility Study in a Post-Acute Care Facility.

Introduction: Posture, temperature, and moisture have been identified as critical modifiable risk factors in pressure injury (PI) development. Microclimate is defined as temperature and humidity at the interface of the support surface and body. To our knowledge, no studies have used sensor technology to measure these parameters simultaneously in real time.

Evaluation of a staff training programme to reimplement a comprehensive health assessment.

Background: Health information systems with applications in patient care planning and decision support depend on high-quality data. A postacute care hospital in Ontario, Canada, conducted data quality assessment and focus group interviews to guide the development of a cross-disciplinary training programme to reimplement the Resident Assessment Instrument-Minimum Data Set (RAI-MDS) 2.0 comprehensive health assessment into the hospital's clinical workflows.

Predicting Adverse Outcomes After Discharge From Complex Continuing Care Hospital Settings to the Community.

Purpose Of Study: The purpose was to identify risk and protective factors assessed at complex continuing care (CCC) admission that were associated with three adverse outcomes (death, readmission, and incidence of or failure to improve possible depression) for persons discharged from CCC to the community with home care services.

Primary Practice Settings: CCC, home care, community.

Methodology And Sample: The sample included all CCC patients in Ontario assessed with the Resident Assessment Instrument-Minimum Data Set 2.