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Discharge Planning and Hospital Readmissions
Medical Care Research and Review, 2016This study examines the association between the quality of hospital discharge planning and all-cause 30-day readmissions and same-hospital readmissions. The sample included adults aged 18 years and older hospitalized in 16 states in 2010 or 2011 for acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, pneumonia, or total hip or joint arthroplasty.
Rachel Mosher, Henke +4 more
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Postoperative Pain After Hospital Discharge
Clinical Nursing Research, 1999Thirty postoperative adults were surveyed using face-to-face interviews in their homes after hospital discharge. Participants were asked to describe their pain communication during their inpatient hospitalization and pain-related problems after discharge.
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Tardive Dyskinesia and Hospital Discharge
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 1980Two hundred ninety-three schizophrenic inpatients were rated for dyskinetic movements on the Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale (AIMS). Two years later, discharge status on 265 of these patients was related to the AIMS ratings. Results indicated that the discharge group had significantly lower AIMS ratings than the nondischarged group.
L T, Kucharski, J M, Smith, D D, Dunn
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Hospital Discharge Queues in Massachusetts
Medical Care, 1982There is growing concern over the inappropriate utilization of health care facilities. The high cost of hospital care and the apparent shortage of nursing home beds have focused attention on one aspect of this problem: the clinically unnecessary days (sometimes called "administrative days" or "ADs") spent in hospitals by patients who are awaiting ...
L W, Gruenberg, T R, Willemain
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Discharge Destination and Repeat Hospitalizations
Medical Care, 1997Is discharge destination a determinant of readmission? Studies to date have been inconclusive. The primary purpose of this study was to identify the role of discharge destination in the occurrence of repeat hospitalizations for a national sample of patients discharged from Veterans Health Administration (VHA) hospitals.The authors studied a 20% random ...
L C, Camberg +5 more
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Abstract Computerized information from hospital discharge summaries is routinely collected and coded using standard data set formats in over half of the states and nationally for all Medicare-covered patients. This administrative data set is assembled primarily for billing purposes, but it has application for public health ...
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Abstract Computerized information from hospital discharge summaries is routinely collected and coded using standard data set formats in over half of the states and nationally for all Medicare-covered patients. This administrative data set is assembled primarily for billing purposes, but it has application for public health ...
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Complex Hospital Discharges: Justice Considered
HEC Forum, 2013How do we respond to the patient who no longer needs inpatient care but refuses to leave the hospital? Complex hospital discharges commonly involve consideration of legal, financial, clinical, and practical issues. Yet, the ethical and contextual issues embedded in complex inpatient discharges are of concern and have not received adequate attention by ...
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National Hospital Discharge Survey.
Vital and health statistics. Series 13, Data from the National Health Survey, 1989This report presents statistics on the utilization of non-Federal short-stay hospitals based on data collected through the National Hospital Discharge Survey from a national sample of the hospital records of discharged inpatients. Estimates are provided by the demographic characteristics of patients discharged, geographic region of hospitals ...
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Hospital discharge plans under fire
Nursing Older People, 2003Older people could be sent home from hospital too quickly or be forced to accept inappropriate placements under the new Community Care (Delayed Discharges etc) Bill, Age Concern has warned.
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