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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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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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Rapid testing for respiratory viruses: Impact on antibiotic use and time to patient discharge.
Infection Disease & Health, 2019BACKGROUND Influenza-like illness is often caused by respiratory viral infections, and is a frequent cause of presentation to hospital. Rapid diagnostics for respiratory viruses, with turnaround times of less than sixty minutes, are increasingly ...
Kevin O’Callaghan, Kay Jones
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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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Prediction of ICU Readmissions Using Data at Patient Discharge
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2018Unplanned readmissions to ICU contribute to high health care costs and poor patient outcomes. 6-7% of all ICU cases see a readmission within 72 hours. Machine learning models on electronic health record data can help identify these cases, providing more ...
Arash Pakbin +5 more
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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 ...
C, Bergman, R J, Calsyn, M L, Trusty
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DISCHARGE PLANNING FOR Elderly Patients
Journal of Gerontological Nursing, 1998ABSTRACT 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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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 +3 more
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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 +3 more
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DISCHARGE PLANNING: Predicting Patients' Needs
Journal of Gerontological Nursing, 1992The 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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International Journal of Nursing Studies, 2019
BACKGROUND Nursing discharge preparation is vital to successful hospital-to-home transitions. However, despite a wealth of evidence on its effectiveness, little is known of the structure- and process-related factors that facilitate or impede its use in ...
Cédric Mabire +3 more
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BACKGROUND Nursing discharge preparation is vital to successful hospital-to-home transitions. However, despite a wealth of evidence on its effectiveness, little is known of the structure- and process-related factors that facilitate or impede its use in ...
Cédric Mabire +3 more
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Discharge of the Asthmatic Patient
Clinical Reviews in Allergy & Immunology, 2001Asthma 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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