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Burden and Determinants of Drug–Drug Interactions at Hospital Discharge: Warfarin as a Model for High-Risk Medication Safety [PDF]

Clinics and Practice
Background: Potential drug–drug interactions (pDDIs) present substantial challenges to medication safety during care transitions. Warfarin, with its narrow therapeutic index and extensive interaction profile, provides a strategic model for examining ...
Kanthida Methaset, Arom Jedsadayanmata
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Early discharge hospital at home [PDF]

The Cochrane database of systematic reviews, 2017
Background: Early discharge hospital at home is a service that provides active treatment by healthcare professionals in the patient's home for a condition that otherwise would require acute hospital inpatient care.
Broad, Joanna, Doll, Helen A., Gladman, John, Gonçalves-Bradley, Daniela C., Iliffe, Steve, Langhorne, Peter, Richards, Suzanne H., Shepperd, Sasha, Shepperd, Sasha   +8 more
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Health Issues and Immunological Assessment Related to Wuhan's COVID-19 Survivors: A Multicenter Follow-Up Study

Frontiers in Medicine, 2021
Background: Currently, a large number of hospitalized coronavirus infectious disease-2019 (COVID-19) patients have met the clinical discharge criteria and have been discharged.
Qi Mei, Fei Wang, Yang Yang, Guangyuan Hu, Suihuai Guo, Qing Zhang, Amy Bryant, Lingjie Zhang, Christian Kurts, Li Wei, Xianglin Yuan, Jian Li   +11 more
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Tackling the readmission epidemic: a resident teaching service perspective [PDF]

Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives, 2013
Background: Readmission rates are projected to serve as quality measures that have the potential to negatively impact hospital and physician reimbursement. Individual physicians and hospitals are developing plans to reduce readmission rates.
Ravi K. Sharma, Pradeep Dhakarwal, Janelle Violago, Robin Bhasin, Ibrahim Ghobrial   +4 more
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Readmission after index hospital discharge among patients with COVID‐19: Protocol for a systematic review and meta‐analysis

Health Science Reports, 2021
Background and Aims Hospital readmissions among COVID‐19 patients have increased the load on the healthcare systems and added more pressure to hospital capacity.
Abdulwahab AlSayegh, Adnan A Gassan, Ram C. Bajpai, Sara Muller, Victoria Welsh, Chun Shing Kwok, Christian D. Mallen   +6 more
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Discharge planning from hospital [PDF]

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2016
Discharge planning is a routine feature of health systems in many countries. The aim of discharge planning is to reduce hospital length of stay and unplanned readmission to hospital, and to improve the co-ordination of services following discharge from hospital.This is the third update of the original review.To assess the effectiveness of planning the ...
Gonçalves-Bradley, D, Lannin, N, Clemson, L, Cameron, I, Shepperd, S   +4 more
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Improving care transfers for homeless patients after hospital discharge: a realist evaluation

Health Services and Delivery Research, 2021
Background: In 2013, 70% of people who were homeless on admission to hospital were discharged back to the street without having their care and support needs addressed.
Michelle Cornes, Robert W Aldridge, Elizabeth Biswell, Richard Byng, Michael Clark, Graham Foster, James Fuller, Andrew Hayward, Nigel Hewett, Alan Kilmister, Jill Manthorpe, Joanne Neale, Michela Tinelli, Martin Whiteford   +13 more
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Social and Regional Factors Predict the Likelihood of Admission to a Nursing Home After Acute Hospital Stay in Older People With Chronic Health Conditions: A Multilevel Analysis Using Routinely Collected Hospital and Census Data in Switzerland

Frontiers in Public Health, 2022
If hospitalization becomes inevitable in the course of a chronic disease, discharge from acute hospital care in older persons is often associated with temporary or persistent frailty, functional limitations and the need for help with daily activities ...
Nicole Bachmann, Andrea Zumbrunn, Lucy Bayer-Oglesby   +2 more
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UK hospital patient discharge [PDF]

European Journal of Hospital Pharmacy, 2017
Wright and colleagues1 report on a single-centre survey of inpatient perceptions and experiences of the current discharge process, and identify improvement opportunities in relation to waiting for medicines and lack of counselling by pharmacists. Problems such as low awareness among inpatients of pharmacy services or pharmacists citing challenges to ...
Michael, Wilcock, Sally, Miles
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Supportive care needs of men with prostate cancer after hospital discharge: multi-stakeholder perspectives

International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health & Well-Being, 2021
Purpose This study explored the supportive care needs of men with prostate cancer (PCa) after hospital discharge based on the perceptions of multiple stakeholders.
Foteini Tsandila Kalakou, Karina Aase, Svein Reidar Kjosavik, Sissel Eikeland Husebø   +3 more
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