Treatment of Patients in the Vulnerable Phase (at Discharge or Early after Discharge)

Sleep Quality in Burn Patients After Hospital Discharge

Background: Sleep, as a reversible phenomenon, is vital for maintaining energy and enhancing the quality of life. Sleep disorders after burn accidents may have biopsychological effects on burn patients, years after the initial injury. This study evaluated the quality of sleep in patients with chronic burns.  Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted on 100 patients referred to...

Early Discharge of Maternity Patients.

For many years the consultant obstetric staff of St. Mary's Hospital had sought to arrange for a selected number of their patients to be discharged early in the puerperium. The reasons for this were twofold. Firstly, the belief that there are some patients who should be delivered in hospital for medical reasons who yet neither merit nor, in many cases, wish for full hospital stay. Secondly, suc...

Baby or bathwater?: Early follow-up after hospital discharge.

S ince 2008, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have publicly reported risk standardized 30-day readmis-sion rates for patients hospitalized with heart failure, acute myocardial infarction (AMI), and pneumonia. Over the next few years, the portfolio of readmission measures will expand to include patients with a broad range of medical and surgical conditions. 1 Furthermore, under the...

Review: early supported discharge reduces death or dependence after stroke.

Selection of patients for early discharge after acute myocardial infarction.

We report a prospective study ofpatients with acute myocardial infarction in whom the use offour simple risk factors allowed the identification of a group ofpatients who could be safely allowed home on their 7th day in hospital. This group comprised 40 per cent of all admissions with acute myocardial infarction who survived 6 days. Of these, 68 per cent were discharged by the 7th day. No patien...