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Church assistance to discharged patients
Journal of Religion & Health, 1995With the revisions in the Medicare reimbursement system, many older pa tients are being discharged "sicker" than was the case ten years ago; thus, most older adults require some type of home-care assistance after being dis charged from the hospital. Given that most older adults attend church regu larly (Markides, Levin, and Ran, 1987), hospital social ...
Robert J. Calsyn +2 more
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Postcraniotomy Patients' Readiness for Discharge and Predictors of Their Readiness for Discharge
Journal of Neuroscience Nursing, 2020ABSTRACT 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 +2 more
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A patient with rectal discharge and fever [PDF]
BMJ, 2011 A 50 year old man presented to a sexual health clinic with a three week history of fever, rectal discharge, pain, and bleeding. He did not have diarrhoea, constipation, urethral symptoms, or urinary symptoms. He had no medical or family history of note and was taking no drugs, including recent antibiotics.
Nneka Nwokolo +2 more
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Emergency Nurse, 2016
Significant numbers of older people with dementia use general hospital services, and ensuring the safe and appropriate discharge home of patients with poor cognition, impaired judgement, misperception or reduced risk awareness is complex and challenging for many healthcare professionals.
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Significant numbers of older people with dementia use general hospital services, and ensuring the safe and appropriate discharge home of patients with poor cognition, impaired judgement, misperception or reduced risk awareness is complex and challenging for many healthcare professionals.
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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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Patient Education: How to Discharge a Patient in the AM
The American Journal of Nursing, 1989Whatever the reasons for postponing discharge planning, the consequences can be overwhelming for the patient and detrimental to the hospital. At the University of California San Diego Medical Center, the director of the patient education department and I gathered fiscal and creative resources to develop a new approach to solving the problem.
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BMJ, 2004
It is not always an easy matter for a physician to judge, with precision, when a patient ought to be discharged …
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It is not always an easy matter for a physician to judge, with precision, when a patient ought to be discharged …
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Psychiatric Services, 1960
9 action ) is employed in another sheltered situation ; the other two are not employed. Aside from the five discharged, one patient (the one diagnosed psychosis with organic brain disease) has improved so Inuch that early discharge is planned, and two others still with the workshop have improved markedly but are not ready for discharge.
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9 action ) is employed in another sheltered situation ; the other two are not employed. Aside from the five discharged, one patient (the one diagnosed psychosis with organic brain disease) has improved so Inuch that early discharge is planned, and two others still with the workshop have improved markedly but are not ready for discharge.
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Judicial discharge of involuntary patients
Psychiatric Quarterly, 1990Involuntarily 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.
Gregory B. Leong +3 more
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Discharge planning for elderly patients
Nursing Standard, 1993Discharge 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.
Tierney A, Closs J
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