Pilot Study on SAFE Score - A Novel Quantitative Metric for Evaluation of Patient Well-being in Crawfurd Hospital Transitional Care Facility (CFH TCF).

Crawfurd Hospital (CFH) set up a Transitional Care Facility (TCF) in November 2022 as an interim holding facility for medically stable patients awaiting a long-term discharge disposition. The team invented the SAFE score, to monitor 4 main domains commonly impacted in long-term stays - namely Skin, Action (Behaviour), Function and Emotion. A sample size of 50 patients met the inclusion criteria and were scored by the nurses on day 7, day 14, and monthly thereafter during their TCF stay, and once more within 72 h prior to their discharge.