منابع مشابه
Discharge planning from hospital to home.
BACKGROUND Discharge planning is a routine feature of health systems in many countries. The aim is to reduce hospital length of stay and unplanned readmission to hospital, and improve the co ordination of services following discharge from hospital thereby bridging the gap between hospital and place of discharge. Sometimes discharge planning is offered as part of an integrated package of care, w...
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In this discussion of audit, the authors describe a pilot study on discharge planning. They review existing literature on discharge planning and outline how the results and lessons of the pilot study will help develop a full audit and quality cycle in the future.
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Hospital discharge planning has become increasingly important in an era of prospective payment and managed care. Given the changes in tasks, decisions, and environments involved, it is important to identify how to move such planning from an art to an empirically based decisionmaking process. The authors use a decision-sciences framework to review the state-of-the-art of hospital discharge plann...
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The hospital discharge is often poorly standardized and affected by discontinuity and fragmentation of care, putting patients at high risk of both post-discharge adverse events and early readmission. The present ANMCO document reviews the modifiable components of the hospital discharge process related to adverse events or re-hospitalizations and suggests the optimal methods for redesigning the ...
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INTRODUCTION Delayed discharge from acute hospital has been a cause of concern for the last 10 years. Older people with complex health needs are particularly vulnerable to delayed discharge with negative consequences for their health and wellbeing. SOURCE OF DATA Review of the literature on the impact of the Community Care (Delayed Discharge) Act (2003) and subsequent policy initiatives on de...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1465-1858
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.cd000313.pub5