Interventions Within the Scope of Occupational Therapy to Address Preventable Adverse Events in Inpatient and Home Health Postacute Care Settings: A Systematic Review.
Interventions Within the Scope of Occupational Therapy to Address Preventable Adverse Events in Inpatient and Home Health Postacute Care Settings: A Systematic Review.
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职业治疗范围内的干预措施,以解决住院和家庭健康急性期护理环境中可预防的不良事件:系统评价。
DOI:
10.5014/ajot.2022.047589
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发表时间:
2022
影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
Elizabeth K. Rhodus
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文献类型:
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作者:
Elizabeth G Hunter;Elizabeth K. Rhodus
IMPORTANCE
Practitioners need to be familiar with, and involved in, managing quality-related adverse events in postacute care.
OBJECTIVE
To determine interventions within the scope of occupational therapy that address preventable adverse events in adult postacute inpatient and home health settings.
DATA SOURCES
Articles published from January 1995 through 2019 identified through searches of MEDLINE, PsycINFO, CINAHL, OTseeker, and Cochrane databases. Study Selection and Data Collection: Articles were collected, evaluated, and analyzed by two independent reviewers. They were assessed and synthesized with a goal of informing clinical practice.
FINDINGS
Twenty-four articles were included in the review. Of the 10 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services preventable adverse events, 6 were addressed: diabetes management (n = 2), dysphagia (n = 5), infection control (n = 1), pressure ulcers (n = 6), falls (n = 5), and discharge management (n = 5). There was strong strength of evidence that exercise programs should, when appropriate, be implemented in both inpatient and home health settings to decrease the risk of falls. There was moderate strength of evidence that practitioners could consider implementing a facility wide evidence-based pressure ulcer program; providing multidisciplinary rehabilitation and swallow strengthening exercises for dysphagia; implementing a multidisciplinary, multicomponent falls program; and using a manualized depression intervention in home health to decrease hospital readmission.
CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE
The review highlights the importance of preventable adverse events and of occupational therapy practitioners acknowledging and managing these events to enhance health outcomes and to control health care costs. What This Article Adds: Many interventions typically performed by occupational therapy practitioners address preventable adverse events. The review highlights the importance of practitioners being aware of this category of impairment or injury.