Extended care for chronic wound ostomy by specialist nurses in a medical alliance / 中华医院管理杂志

ABSTRACT

Development of medical alliances can provide patients of wound ostomy with cost-effective, safe and effective continuing specialized care at their community, gradually homogenizing hospital-community specialized care. By means of establishing a nurse advice referral and specialist nurses consultation mechanism, Shenzhen Luohu Hospital Group has achieved to share specialist nursing resources between hospitals and social health centers.This practice can reduce re-hospitalization rate of these patients, reduced their economic burden, save medical resources and improve patient satisfaction as well.