Toolkits

The BOOST intervention Tools

• The Target
• Patient PASS
• Teach-back

• About the BAAHM Project and Team 
• Discharge Time Out (Overview) 
• Teaching Safer Hospital Discharges-Curriculum Overview 
• Safer Hospital Discharges 
• Teaching Accountability at Transitions 
• Discharge Time Out Checklist
• Medication Errors at Time of Discharge Tool 
• Discharge Summary Guide 

• Clinical Toolbox for Geriatric Care

• Discharge Patient Education Tool (DPET) 
• Discharge Knowledge Assessment Tool (DKAT) 
• Medication Reconciliation - Admission Form
• Medication Reconciliation - Discharge Form
• Patient Safe-D(ischarge) Project Summary
• Improving Hospital Care Transitions for Older Adults 

The Care Transitions Intervention
This is a web-based resource from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Division of Health Care Policy and Research, regarding their Care Transitions Intervention. It includes many useful resources and tools, including:

• Protocol Manual: An Interdisciplinary Team Approach to Improving Transitions Across Sites of Geriatric Care.
• Discharge Preparation Checklist
• Personal Health Record
• Sample Transition Coach Charting Form
• Care Transitions Measure (CTM©)
• Medical Discrepancy Tool (MDT©)
• Links to some of the original Care Transitions Intervention reports:
• Coleman EA, Parry C, Chalmers S, Min SJ. The care transitions intervention: results of a randomized controlled trial. Arch Int Med 2006; 166:1822-8.
• Coleman EA, Mahoney E, Parry C. Assessing the quality of preparation for posthospital care from the patient's perspective: the care transitions measure. Med Care. 43:246-55, 2005
• Coleman EA, Smith JD, Frank JC, Min S-J, Parry C, Kramer AM. Preparing patients and caregivers to participate in care delivered across settings: The care transitions intervention. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2004; 52:1817-1825.
• Smith JD, Coleman EA, Min SJ. A new tool for identifying discrepancies in postacute medications for community-dwelling older adults. Amer J Geriatr Pharmacotherapy. 2:141-7, 2004
• The Care Transitions Intervention: A Patient-Centered Approach to Facilitating Effective Transfers Between Sites of Geriatric Care.  Home Health Services Quarterly, 2003; 22:1-18.