Enhancing the care transitions intervention protocol to better address the needs of family caregivers.

Background: Family caregivers play a central role in ensuring the execution of the discharge care plan.

Objective: To enhance an evidence-based model-the Care Transitions Intervention (CTI)-and to make it more responsive to the needs of family caregivers and determine its impact on a measure of activation.

Methods: Prospective cohort of 83 patient-family caregiver partnerships discharged from hospital.