Exploring the inner roots of discharge against medical advice (DAMA) in an academic psychiatric hospital: a qualitative study [PDF]
Middle East Current Psychiatry, 2022 Background To explore the roots of DAMA in the Roozbeh Hospital, an academic mental hospital located in Tehran, Iran, the authors conducted a simple qualitative study.
Alidoust F, Yahyavi S.
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Caregivers' reasons and health professionals' perceptions of pediatric discharge against medical advice in Eastern Ethiopia: a mixed-methods study. [PDF]
BMC PediatrBackground Discharge against medical advice among children remains a critical challenge in healthcare, as it interrupts essential treatment, increases complications, and may result in death.
Libe TT +5 more
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Investigation of Rate and Effective Factors on Discharge against Medical Advice in Psychiatric Patients Over a 10-Year Period. [PDF]
Iran J Med SciDischarge against medical advice (AMA) has a higher rate in the psychiatric ward than in other clinical wards. Discharge AMA increases both the patient’s and the hospital’s costs of delivering clinical care.
Ebnehoseini Z +9 more
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Uncompleted emergency department care and discharge against medical advice in patients with neurological complaints: a chart review. [PDF]
BMC Emerg Med, 2019 Background Uncompleted emergency department care and against-medical-advice discharge represent relevant medical problems with impact on patient safety and potential medicolegal and socioeconomic consequences.
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Discharge against Medical Advice in Emergency Department
طب اورژانس ایران, 2015 Introduction: Discharge against medical advice (AMA) is the patient voluntarily leaving the hospital against the physician’s advice, which might indicate a problem in the hospital or the quality of care in it.
Payman Asadi +3 more
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Discharge against Medical Advice at Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in Gujarat, India. [PDF]
Int J Pediatr, 2016 Objective. We explored reasons for discharged against medical advice (DAMA) of neonates from a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) through in-depth interviews of the parents/guardians. Methods.
Devpura B +4 more
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Journal of Nepal Medical Association, 2021 Introduction: Leave against medical advice has a potentially deleterious effect on the health of a child. This is particularly alarming in case of pediatric patients as they are unable to understand the implications of it and rely on parents to make ...
Sahisnuta Basnet +3 more
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Against Medical Advice Discharges [PDF]
Journal of Hospital Medicine, 2017 The “Things We Do for No Reason” (TWDFNR) series reviews practices which have become common parts of hospital care but which may provide little value to our patients. Practices reviewed in the TWDFNR series do not represent “black and white” conclusions or clinical practice standards, but are meant as a starting place for research and active ...
David, Alfandre +2 more
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Nigerian Journal of Medicine, 2022 Background: Patients in our environment sometimes discharge themselves against medical advice. Many of them do this due to the cost of treatment and a belief in the efficacy of traditional bone setters (TBS).
Christian Chukwuemeka Madubueze +6 more
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Against Medical Advice Discharge: A Narrative Review and Recommendations for a Systematic Approach [PDF]
, 2021 Approximately 1%-2% of hospitalizations in the United States result in an against medical advice discharge. Still, the practice of discharging patients against medical advice is highly subjective and variable.
Cooley, Benjamin S. +3 more
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