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Discharging patients.

Nursing standard (Royal College of Nursing (Great Britain) : 1987), 2017
What was the nature of the CPD activity and/or practice-related feedback and/or event or experience in your practice? The CPD article discussed the importance of effective planning when discharging patients from acute care hospitals. It emphasised the benefit of early assessment and planning, and outlined the essential principles that should be ...
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Discharging older patients

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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Church assistance to discharged patients

Journal of Religion & Health, 1995
With 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 ...
C, Bergman, R J, Calsyn, M L, Trusty
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DISCHARGE PLANNING FOR Elderly Patients

Journal of Gerontological Nursing, 1998
ABSTRACT The complex chronic health problems and functional limitations common in the elderly population place them at risk for complicated hospitalizations and discharge planning. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of a discharge planning protocol in identifying elderly patients' home care needs.
M A, Rosswurm, D M, Lanham
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DISCHARGE PLANNING: Predicting Patients' Needs

Journal of Gerontological Nursing, 1992
The elderly are at higher risk for longer and more frequent lengths of hospital stay than other adults. Comprehensive discharge planning programs, including early identification of those at risk, can alter these statistics. Screening inventories to identify patients at risk have been available for many years, but they are not specific to the needs of ...
A, Blaylock, C L, Cason
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Discharge of the Asthmatic Patient

Clinical Reviews in Allergy & Immunology, 2001
Asthma continues to be a challenging disease to treat in both the inpatient and outpatient settings. The growing database on therapeutic interventions at the time of transition from the acute to chronic phase of this disease is encouraging. Glucocorticoids and inhaled beta-agonists clearly reduce readmission and relapse.
B A, Markoff, J F, MacMillan, V, Kumra
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Do Patients Understand Discharge Instructions?

Journal of Emergency Nursing, 2011
Adherence to aftercare instructions following an emergency department visit may be essential for facilitating recovery and avoiding complications, but conditions for teaching and learning are less than ideal in the ED. The objective of this study was to identify and describe areas of patient confusion about ED discharge instructions.Follow-up telephone
Sandra, Zavala, Carol, Shaffer
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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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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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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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