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| Carla ParrySummaryAffiliation: University of Colorado Health Sciences Center Country: USA Publications
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Preparing patients and caregivers to participate in care delivered across settings: the Care Transitions InterventionEric A Coleman
Division of Health Care Policy and Research, and Geriatric Medicine, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, 13611 East Colfax Avenue, Aurora, CO 80011, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 52:1817-25. 2004..To test whether an intervention designed to encourage older patients and their caregivers to assert a more active role during care transitions can reduce rehospitalization rates...- The care transitions intervention: a patient-centered approach to ensuring effective transfers between sites of geriatric careCarla Parry
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Division of Health Care Policy and Research, Denver 80206, USA
Home Health Care Serv Q 22:1-17. 2003..This article introduces a patient-centered interdisciplinary team intervention designed to improve transitions across sites of geriatric care... 
Assessing the quality of transitional care: further applications of the care transitions measureCarla Parry
Division of Health Care Policy and Research, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Aurora, Colorado 80045, USA
Med Care 46:317-22. 2008..The Institute of Medicine has identified care transitions as a priority area for performance measurement...- A qualitative exploration of a patient-centered coaching intervention to improve care transitions in chronically ill older adultsCarla Parry
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Division of Health Care Policy and Research, School of Medicine, 13611 East Colfax, Suite 100, Aurora, CO 80011, USA
Home Health Care Serv Q 25:39-53. 2006..Future research should seek to explore which patients are most ready and able to benefit from this type of intervention... - The care transitions intervention: results of a randomized controlled trialEric A Coleman
Division of Health Care Policy and Research, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, USA
Arch Intern Med 166:1822-8. 2006..A care transitions intervention designed to encourage patients and their caregivers to assert a more active role during care transitions may reduce rehospitalization rates... - Further application of the care transitions intervention: results of a randomized controlled trial conducted in a fee-for-service settingCarla Parry
University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado 80045, USA
Home Health Care Serv Q 28:84-99. 2009..Coaching chronically ill older patients and their caregivers to ensure that their needs are met during care transitions may reduce the rate of subsequent rehospitalization in a Medicare fee-for-service population... - Assessing the quality of preparation for posthospital care from the patient's perspective: the care transitions measureEric A Coleman
Division of Health Care Policy and Research, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado 80011, USA
Med Care 43:246-55. 2005..A valid and reliable self-report measure of the quality of care transitions is needed that is both consistent with the concept of patient-centeredness and useful for the purpose of performance measurement and quality improvement... - The central role of performance measurement in improving the quality of transitional careEric A Coleman
Division of Health Care Policy and Research, University of Colorado at Denver Health Sciences Center, 13611 East Colfax Ave, Suite 100, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
Home Health Care Serv Q 26:93-104. 2007..The CTM was found to be a sensitive tool able to capture changes in performance. The 3-item CTM was found to significantly predict post-hospital return to the emergency department within the first 30 days (p = 0.004)... - Working without a net: leukemia and lymphoma survivors' perspectives on care delivery at end-of-treatment and beyondCarla Parry
Division of Health Care Policy and Research, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA
J Psychosoc Oncol 29:175-98. 2011..Improved care coordination is needed after active treatment, including use of an exit interview and delivery of services that are more congruent and better timed to meet ongoing and emergent survivorship needs... - Thematic evidence of psychosocial thriving in childhood cancer survivorsCarla Parry
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO, USA
Qual Health Res 15:1055-73. 2005..The results suggest that in the aftermath of a trauma such as childhood cancer, many outcomes are possible, including thriving...
Research Grants
- QOL and Service Needs of Leukemia/Lymphoma SurvivorsCarla Parry; Fiscal Year: 2007..Research will be conducted in 5 phases, using a multi-method approach, culminating with application for funding to pilot-test the intervention. ..