title: [Between home and institution: network meetings as a decision aide].
abstract: Coordination of care is a critical step toward improvement of health care delivery for elderly persons. Family meetings with hospital and community health care professionals (network meeting) provide a unique opportunity to solve complex situations and improve coordination of care. Because this activity is time- and ressources-consuming a common list of domains to assess and indications to these meetings was developed by a team of hospital and community health care professionals. This article presents these indications and discusses opportunities and pitfalls of these network meetings.
authors.affiliation: Centre universitaire de traitements et de réadaptation (CUTR) Sylvana.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Rimaz
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Waldmann
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Büla
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003142:Communication; D003266:Continuity of Patient Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003661:Decision Support Techniques; D006299:Health Services for the Aged / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D010347:Patient Care Planning / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010348:Patient Care Team / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010351:Patient Discharge; D010564:Personnel, Hospital