This study aimed to evaluate the impact of comprehensive discharge program onpatients' outcomes after open heart surgery.

BACKGROUND To improve continuity of care at hospital admission and discharge and to decrease medication errors pharmaceutical care programs are developed. This study aims to determine the cost-effectiveness of the COACH program in comparison with usual care from a societal perspective. METHODS A controlled clinical trial was performed at the Internal Medicine department of a general teaching ...

OBJECTIVE This study evaluated the feasibility and effectiveness of an emergency housing program as a step-down program after inpatient care, as a step-up program from community-based living, and as an alternative to inpatient care for individuals with serious mental illness who sought treatment at an urban medical center. METHODS One hundred sixty-one persons admitted consecutively to an eme...

OBJECTIVES To identify factors that are associated with older patients' engagement in exercise in the 6 months after hospital discharge. DESIGN A prospective observational study using qualitative and quantitative evaluation. SETTING Follow-up of hospital patients in their home setting after discharge from a metropolitan general hospital. PARTICIPANTS Participants (N=343) were older patien...

conclusions it is suggested that for addiction rehabilitation and relapse prevention, health practitioners should not only provide an intervention program to their patients, but they should design a program for families to participate in the treatment as well so that patients can function at a higher level of wellness. therefore, the family participation program should be reinforced as part of ...

BACKGROUND Schizophrenia is a debilitating psychotic disorder that affects patients' personality, career-related and social functioning. Patients stop medications after discharge or inpatient care, when they feel relatively recovered. Most patients do not know that they are sick and they need medication for recovery due to lack of information and cognitive impairment, which makes them incompete...

Background: The necessity of professional nursing support to increase the role of families in neonatal care and their empowerment has been a subject of growing attention. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of telenursing on attachment and stress in the mothers of premature infants. Methods: In this clinical trial, 50 mothers with premature infants who were admitted to neonatal i...

BACKGROUND Discharge summaries after hospitalization provide the most reliable description and implications of the hospitalization. A concise discharge summary is crucial for maintaining continuity of care through the transition from inpatient to ambulatory care. Discharge summaries often lack information and are imprecise. Errors and insufficient recommendations regarding changes in the medica...

This paper describes an experimental computer program for the application of health care review criteria to hospital discharge summaries. The use of the computer in this process would make it possible to speed up the routine screening of patient records; it could also facilitate experimental evaluation of alternate proposed audit criteria. The computer program has two components. The first comp...

The purposes of this observational pre-post study were twofold: 1- to evaluate psychological health in obese patients with ischemic heart disease at admission to cardiac rehabilitation (CR) and 2 - to examine the effectiveness of a 4-week CR residential program in improving obese patients' psychological well-being at discharge from CR. A sample of 177 obese patients completed the Psychological ...