Optimizing Patient Transfers, Impacting Medical quality and Improving Symptoms (IMAGE)

Indiana University

Optimizing Patient Transfers, Impacting Medical quality and Improving Symptoms

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The aim of OPTIMISTIC -- an acronym for Optimizing Patient Transfers, Impacting Medical quality and Improving Symptoms: Transforming Institutional Care -- is to improve care and communication within nursing facilities and between these facilities and acute-care institutions so problems can be caught and solved, improving quality of care and reducing unnecessary hospital transfers.

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Indiana University Center for Aging Research

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