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Investigation of Rate and Effective Factors on Discharge against Medical Advice in Psychiatric Patients Over a 10-Year Period [PDF]

Iranian Journal of Medical Sciences
Discharge 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.
Zahra Ebnehoseini, Hediye Khorasani, Zahra Koohjani, Mina Zibaei, Amir Deghatipour, Ali Saghebi, Ali Reza Ebrahimi, Masoumeh Boroujerdi, Mohammad Reza Mehri, Hamed Tabesh   +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 Emergency Medicine, 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.
Carolin Hoyer, Patrick Stein, Angelika Alonso, Michael Platten, Kristina Szabo   +4 more
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COVID-19 outbreak impact on discharge against medical advice from the ED: A retrospective study. [PDF]

Am J Emerg Med, 2022
Aydin H, Doğan H.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Discharge against medical advice in pediatrics: A review and recommendation of a five-component approach

International Journal of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 2023
Patients who are discharge against medical advice (DAMA) present significant challenges on clinical, ethical, financial, and legal levels. Despite its multilevel impact, the factors explaining and predicting DAMA in different regions of the world remain ...
Kim Sadler, Marwan Alwali, Lori Nancarrow, Mohammed Albalawi, Saadiya Khan, Hamad Husain Alyami   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Leave Against Medical Advice amongst Pediatric Patients Admitted in a Tertiary Teaching Hospital in Nepal: A Descriptive Cross-sectional Study

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, Ganesh B.K, Aslam Ansari, Suraj Adhikari   +3 more
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Predictors of Discharge Against Medical Advice in a Tertiary Paediatric Hospital. [PDF]

Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2019
Sealy L, Zwi K, McDonald G, Saavedra A, Crawford L, Gunasekera H.   +5 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

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, Jay, Brenner, Eberechukwu, Onukwugha   +2 more
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National survey on discharge against medical advice among patients with musculoskeletal trauma in Nigeria

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, Ugochukwu Chinyem Madubueze, Njoku Isaac Omoke, Alfred F. I. Una, Oladimeji Ranti Babalola, Sikiru Alabi, Edwin Maduakonam Dim   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Self-discharge during treatment for acute recreational drug toxicity: an observational study from emergency departments in seven European countries

International Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2023
Background Self-discharge is a risk factor for readmission and excess mortality. We assess the rate of self-discharge from the emergency department (ED) among presentations for acute recreational drug toxicity and identify factors associated with self ...
Odd Martin Vallersnes, Alison M. Dines, David M. Wood, Fridtjof Heyerdahl, Knut Erik Hovda, Christopher Yates, Isabelle Giraudon, Blazena Caganova, Alessandro Ceschi, Miguel Galicia, Evangelia Liakoni, Matthias E. Liechti, Òscar Miró, Roberta Noseda, Per Sverre Persett, Kristiina Põld, Yasmin Schmid, Irene Scholz, Federico Vigorita, Paul I. Dargan   +19 more
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Discharges Against Medical Advice:. [PDF]

Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2006
Prior literature suggests that blacks are more likely to be discharged against medical advice (DAMA).We examined whether DAMA from general hospitals varies by race/ethnicity and whether this variation is explained by individual and hospital factors.
Peter, Franks, Sean, Meldrum, Kevin, Fiscella   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources