Geriatric-led transitional care for older adults discharged from the emergency department: impact on hospital readmissions and disability. Protocol for the controlled prospective quasi-experimental study LASUITE

Table 1 Characteristics of the 12 study centres

Study group	TRANSITIONAL CARE							CONTROL
Centre	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
Hospital characteristics
University Hospital	+				+	+		+	+
Regional Hospital		+	+	+			+			+	+	+
Emergency Department	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
In-hospital Geriatric Mobile Team	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
Geographic area characteristics
Urban	+		+		+	+	+	+	+	+	+
Rural		+		+								+
Standardized intervention during the ED visit
Screening for risk of readmission	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
Discharge procedure (medical report)	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
Transitional care: standardized intervention								No Transitional Care
Telephone call between day 1 and day 6	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
Multidisciplinary team	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
Home-visits if necessary	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
Structured hospital-community coordination	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
Other possible interventions components
Personalized care plan elaboration	+			+	+
Educational intervention					+
Monthly meetings with primary care settings	+			+	+	+
Shared professional with primary care settings	+
Supportive intervention for family caregivers				+	+		+
Shared home-visits with primary care members	+	+	+
Day-hospital evaluation	+	+		+	+		+
Computerized shared information system					+

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