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Negotiating the discharge of medical patients
Journal of Advanced Nursing, 1981The discharge of medical patients consists often not of a single event but of a lengthy process of negotiation involving professional staff, patients and their relatives. Despite the fact that negotiation by patients to leave or to stay in hospital a few days longer is recognized by nurses and doctors, the extent to which this takes place is not ...
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The Discharged Patient's Drug Treatment
British Journal of Psychiatry, 1974When a doctor sees a patient it is important that he should have an accurate account of that patient's previous drug treatment. An earlier study (Ballinger and Stewart, 1971) showed that there were inconsistencies in the various reports of a patient's drug treatment immediately before admission to a psychiatric hospital. It seemed very likely that this
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Supported discharge for patients with COPD
Nursing Standard, 2004This article describes how an existing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease outreach service, which manages patients at home and attempts to avoid inappropriate hospital admission, could be improved by implementing an early supported discharge scheme as a collaborative effort between primary and secondary care.
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Electronic Discharge Summary to Speed Patient Discharge
American Journal of Medical Quality, 2011Voleti, Choudhary +5 more
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Early Discharge of the Postsurgical Patient
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1968To the Editor:— With the persistent reiteration by hospital staffs that there is a shortage of hospital beds, it is inevitable that thought must be given to an early discharge of patients following surgery.The Journal( 204 :647, 1968) carried an excellent report on the "Experience With Shortened Hospital Stay for Postsurgical Patients." This concept ...
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Nursing standard (Royal College of Nursing (Great Britain) : 1987)
What was the nature of the CPD activity, practice-related feedback and/or event and/or experience in your practice? Delayed discharge from hospital can have significant effects on patients and healthcare organisations, for example, longer hospital stays, increased readmissions and financial cost.
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What was the nature of the CPD activity, practice-related feedback and/or event and/or experience in your practice? Delayed discharge from hospital can have significant effects on patients and healthcare organisations, for example, longer hospital stays, increased readmissions and financial cost.
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