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Delays in the discharge of elderly patients
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 1990This 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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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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Patients’ Perceptions of the Quality of Discharge Teaching and Readiness for Discharge
Rehabilitation Nursing, 2015This study evaluated the effectiveness of a change to an interprofessional discharge planning/teaching process with more patient and family engagement.A quantitative survey design was used to measure the effectiveness of the interprofessional discharge planning and teaching process in improving patient and provider outcomes.The project used the Quality
Susan Knier +3 more
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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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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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Electronic Discharge Summary to Speed Patient Discharge
American Journal of Medical Quality, 2011Voleti Choudhary +5 more
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BMJ, 1993