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The effect of caregiver's and nurse's perception of a patient's discharge readiness on post-discharge medical resource consumption.

Journal of Advanced Nursing, 2020
AIMS The purpose of this study was to validate patient's primary caregiver and their nurses' perception of patient discharge readiness assessment and their association with post-discharge medical consumption.
T. Shih, Li‐Chan Lin, Shiao-Chi Wu, Man-Hua Yang   +3 more
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Postcraniotomy Patients' Readiness for Discharge and Predictors of Their Readiness for Discharge

Journal of Neuroscience Nursing, 2020
ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Postcraniotomy individuals should be monitored because of the direct influence on brain function as well as constraints caused by underlying illness. The relationship between demographic and clinical characteristics of postcraniotomy individuals and their readiness for discharge was examined ...
Inal, Gulsah, Surucu, Hamdiye Arda, BAKSİ, Altun   +2 more
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Judicial discharge of involuntary patients

Psychiatric Quarterly, 1990
Involuntarily hospitalized patients oftentimes request judicial review of their commitments. Many psychiatrists believe that such judicial review results in the discharge of too many of these patients. We attempted to assess this hypothesis as well as identify which patients receive judicial discharge.
G B, Leong, J A, Silva, C A, Leong
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Delays in the discharge of elderly patients

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 1990
This paper reports a prospective study of the incidence and magnitude of delays in the discharge of 80 elderly (65+ years old) patients admitted to two general medical services in teaching hospitals in Edmonton, Alberta. The average length of stay was 16.6 days. Discharges were delayed in 14% (11/80) patients, accounting for 21% of the total days stay.
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Discharge planning for elderly patients

Nursing Standard, 1993
Discharge planning for older patients is gaining recognition as a process requiring improvement. Demographic changes have produced an increasing population of elderly patients in the acute hospital sector, many of whom need co-ordinated discharge planning and appropriate post-discharge support.
A, Tierney, J, Closs
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Facilitating the discharge of patients with dementia

Nursing Management, 2016
Significant numbers of older people with dementia use general hospital services, and facilitating the safe discharge of patients with poor cognition, impaired judgement, misperception or reduced risk awareness is challenging for many healthcare professionals.
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The Discharged Patient's Drug Treatment

British Journal of Psychiatry, 1974
When 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, 2004
This 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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Planning a patient's discharge

BMJ, 2009
Rebecca Anthony, Catherine Tandy
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Negotiating the discharge of medical patients

Journal of Advanced Nursing, 1981
The 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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