Understanding the groups of care transition strategies used by U.S. hospitals: an application of factor analytic and latent class methods

Table 3 Probability of Implementing Transitional Care Strategies Among Seven Latent Classes of Hospitals

	Hospital Class, Ordered by Spectrum of Strategies Implemented
	(A)	(B)	(C)	(D)	(E)	(F)	(G)
		Intermediate
			Shared	Medication	Interdisciplinary	Community
Transitional Care Strategies	Broad	Care Plan	Decision	Reconciliation	Teams	Services	Narrow
1. Urgent Care Plan	0.998	0.996	0.846	0.717	0.043	0.621	0.526
2. Transition Team	0.896	0.785	0.750	0.948	0.894	0.484	0.278
3. Care Coordination	0.478	0.533	0.169	0.232	0.003	0.002	0.043
4. Interdisciplinary Approach	0.897	0.937	0.010	0.995	0.995	0.692	0.358
5. Medication Reconciliation	0.288	0.601	0.514	0.987	0.071	0.105	0.214
6. Identify High Risk Patients and Intervene	0.623	0.345	0.004	0.389	0.314	0.415	0.026
7. Patient and Family Caregiver Transitional Care Needs Assessment	0.587	0.002	0.122	0.153	0.235	0.002	0.002
8. Timely Exchange of Critical Patient Information among Providers	0.525	0.514	0.151	0.008	0.523	0.195	0.155
9. Referral to Community Services	0.741	0.667	0.894	0.775	0.511	0.918	0.061
10. Shared Decisions	0.998	0.310	0.985	0.891	0.636	0.450	0.426
11. Teach Back	0.700	0.466	0.509	0.362	0.264	0.236	0.104
12. Timely Follow-up	0.822	0.860	0.622	0.960	0.627	0.636	0.488
13. Transition Summary for Patients and Family Caregivers	0.831	0.994	0.986	0.736	0.992	0.653	0.524
Percent of hospitals in class	16.2%	13.5%	8.4%	13.5%	9.5%	17.3%	21.6%
Number of hospitals in class	60	50	31	50	35	64	80
Number of TC strategies with p > 0.5	11	9	8	8	7	5	2
Entropy	0.81

Note: Estimates were obtained from a latent class model with 7 classes. Bold indicates item response probabilities> 0.5

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