The ESP Coordinating Center (ESP CC) is responding to a request from VA’s Health Services Research and Development Service (HSR&D) for an Evidence Map on implementation factors that influence the effectiveness of emergency department (ED) to outpatient transitions of care across health systems. Findings from this Evidence Map will be used to inform a January 2022 State-of-the-Art (SOTA) conference on emergency medicine.

Contents

• PREFACE
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
• INTRODUCTION
  • PURPOSE
  • BACKGROUND
• METHODS
  • KEY QUESTIONS
  • ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA
  • DATA SOURCES AND SEARCHES
  • DATA ABSTRACTION AND ASSESSMENT
  • SYNTHESIS
• RESULTS
  • LITERATURE FLOW
  • LITERATURE OVERVIEW
  • INTERVENTION CHARACTERISTICS
  • IMPLEMENTATION PROCESSES
  • OUTER SETTING
  • INNER SETTING
  • CHARACTERISTICS OF INDIVIDUALS
• DISCUSSION
  • LIMITATIONS
  • FUTURE RESEARCH
• REFERENCES
• Supplemental Materials
  • APPENDIX A. SEARCH STRATEGY
  • APPENDIX B. CFIR CONSTRUCTS
  • APPENDIX C. EXCLUDED STUDIES
  • APPENDIX D. EVIDENCE TABLES
  • APPENDIX E. RESEARCH IN PROGRESS
  • APPENDIX F. PEER REVIEW DISPOSITION
  • REFERENCES

Suggested citation:

Kondo K, Anderson J, Young S, Ward R. Evidence Map: Implementation Factors Influencing the Transition from Emergency to Outpatient Care Settings. Washington, DC: Evidence Synthesis Program, Health Services Research and Development Service, Office of Research and Development, Department of Veterans Affairs. VA ESP Project #09-199; 2021.

This report was prepared by the Evidence Synthesis Program Coordinating Center located at the VA Portland Health Care System, directed by Mark Helfand, MD, MPH, MS and funded by the Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration, Health Services Research and Development.

The findings and conclusions in this document are those of the author(s) who are responsible for its contents and do not necessarily represent the views of the Department of Veterans Affairs or the United States government. Therefore, no statement in this article should be construed as an official position of the Department of Veterans Affairs. No investigators have any affiliations or financial involvement (eg, employment, consultancies, honoraria, stock ownership or options, expert testimony, grants or patents received or pending, or royalties) that conflict with material presented in the report.