CARE TRANSITIONS

The FCAT tool® was developed to foster more productive interactions between health care professionals and family caregivers. Because it was developed with direct input from family caregivers, the items are both relevant to actual experience and are relatively easy to understand. We designed the FCAT tool® to be administered by a health professional or self-administered by the family caregiver at the point of care at the time of transition or shortly thereafter. The responses could then be reviewed by the care team. Those areas that the family caregiver identified as not feeling confident or prepared through completing the tool would be specifically addressed during discharge preparation instruction... Eric A. Coleman, MD, MPH - Health Care Services for Improving Quality and Safety during Care Hand-offs