Table 3 Transitional Care Program (TCP) Outcomes

Functional status

Functional status

[26, 29, 44, 56]

ADL

[24, 26, 28, 30,31,32, 35, 36, 40, 45, 46, 48, 50, 53, 55, 56]

IADL

[26, 30, 40, 45, 56]

Psychological status

Cognitive status

[30, 40]

Psychological wellbeing

[30, 40, 45, 48, 53]

Health Status

Mortality

[18, 28, 29, 33, 35, 52]

Change in disease severity

[30]

Care needs

[28]

Nutrition Status

[40]

Medication Prescriptions

[21, 46]

Quality of Life

Quality of Life

[28, 31]

Health-Related QoL

[45]

Pain

[21, 40]

Fear of falling

[50]

Confidence to return home

[48]

Discharge Destination

[18, 19, 23, 24, 27, 32, 35, 39, 40, 44, 46, 49,50,51, 54, 55]

Cost Analysis

Cost

[22, 23, 31, 35,36,37, 46, 51, 53]

Healthcare Use

[33, 37, 50, 51]

Nursing workload

[51]

Quality of Care

[56]

Alternative level of care

[50]

Hospital Stay

Length of stay

[20,21,22,23, 25, 28, 31, 33, 35, 46, 48, 50, 51, 54,55,56]

Hospital readmission

[20, 21, 28, 29, 33, 50,51,52]

Time to admission to long-term care

[28]

Changes to rate of delayed discharge

[43]

Complications during hospital stay

[46]