v
Care Transitions Measure Tool Kit
v
With support from The Commonwealth Fund, The Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation, and the Paul Beeson Faculty Scholars in Aging, Dr. Coleman and colleagues
designed a 15-item uni-dimensional measure to assess the quality of care transitions:
the Care Transitions Measure (CTM© TM). The primary
objective of this endeavor has been to
develop a measure that is both substantively and methodologically consistent with the
concept of patient-centeredness, and useful for the purpose of performance measurement
and subsequent public reporting.
Psychometric testing of the CTM© TM; has been completed,
demonstrating high internal consistency
and reliability and applicability for assessment across multiple sites of care (i.e.,
hospital to home, hospital to skilled nursing facility, skilled nursing facility to home,
etc.). The measure also demonstrated the power to discriminate between: 1) patients
discharged from the hospital who did/did not experience a subsequent emergency visit or
rehospitalization for their index condition, and 2) health care facilities with differing
levels of commitment to care coordination.
While the testing of the CTM© TM was done using a
post-hospitalization model, this measure is
applicable to a variety of settings, including skilled nursing facilities, rehabilitation,
and other locations patients are likely to utilize during transition.
Included in this Packet:
v