| | Appropriate risk assessment ensures organizations identify and stratify those patients at risk for preventable emergency care, hospitalization, falls, or other adverse outcomes. Use of the VNAA Blueprint for consistent risk assessment as a process allows services and interventions to be targeted to patients at greatest risk. Patients with changing clinical status or identified risks should be reassessed at specified intervals to ensure that the care plan can be updated with needed interventions.
How to use these resources: Start with the training program, Risk Tools in Predicting Rehospitalization, which offers an overview of resources available in the Risk Assessment best practice topic area. The training program learning objectives are:
- Discuss the need for risk assessment for home health patients.
- Identify the factors influencing hospitalization from a home health agency.
Then explore the resources, critical interventions and measurement and evaluation tools by clicking on the boxes above. For detailed strategies on preventing rehospitalization, visit VNAA's Blueprint module, Preventing Readmissions from Home Health.
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