Identifying Hospital Patients Who Need Early Discharge Planning for Special Dispositions
A Comparison of Alternative Techniques
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9103463 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas S Inui (University of Washington, corresponding author), K Stevenson (0000-0003-0345-5193, University of Washington), Kay M Stevenson, Diane Plorde (Health Services Research & Development), Ileana Murphy (Health Services Research & Development) |
| Year | 1981 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 9 |
| Pages | 922-929 |
| Publication date | 1981-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Medical Care (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0025-7079 • E-ISSN: 1537-1948 |
| Publisher | Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1097/00005650-198109000-00004 |
| PMID | 6270474 |
| OpenAlex | W1991998791 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 1 |
Identifying patients early in their hospitalizations who need discharge planning to arrange special care dispositions is a difficult task. Failure to achieve early identification may result in unnecessarily prolonged hospital stays and a less orderly process of planning. In this study three brief rating instruments for identifying such patients were compared and found to have different performance characteristics when applied to a large population of patients admitted to a short–term, general medical and surgical hospital. Operational objectives for a discharge–planning screening program are specified and used as grounds for choosing among alternative screening instruments
Discharge planning · Hospital discharge · Identification (biology) · Intensive care medicine · Medical emergency · Operations management · Task (project management) · Chronic Disease Management Strategies · Emergency and Acute Care Studies · Engineering · Medicine · Nursing · Primary Care and Health Outcomes
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 1988 - 1997 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |