Table 4.

Transitional Care (TC) Strategy Prevalence and Definitions^d

			Patients Exposed
TC Strategy and Definition			n	%
1. Plain Language Communication at Hospital			6214	78.3%
• In the hospital, healthcare professionals explained things in a way that you could understand.
2. Promote Trust at Hospital			5777	72.8%
• In the hospital, healthcare professionals definitely seemed to care about you as a person. • In the hospital, you definitely trusted healthcare professionals’ judgements about your medical care.
3. Helpful Health Care Contact			5505	69.3%
• Since you’ve been home, you have had contact information for a healthcare professional you could reach out to if you had any problems or questions. • If you tried to contact them, you got help with your problems or questions or you did not try to contact them.
4. Plain Language Communication at Home			5209	65.6%
• Since you’ve been home, healthcare professionals definitely explained things to you in a way you could understand.
5. Promote Trust at Home			4865	61.3%
• Since you’ve been home, healthcare professionals definitely seemed to care about you as a person. • Since you’ve been home, you definitely trusted healthcare professionals’ judgements about your medical care.
6. Symptom Management			3321	41.8%
• Before you left the hospital, you definitely got information about what symptoms to look out for at home. • Since you’ve been home, healthcare professionals definitely helped you manage any changes or unexpected problems with your care or you’ve had no changes or unexpected problems with your care,
a TC strategies measured through the hospital survey b Strategy was almost universally applied and therefore was not included in the final analytic groups c Patient exposure to hospital-reported strategies is calculated based on the number of patients discharged from hospitals reporting the TC strategy. d TC strategies measured through the patient survey