Identifying Hospital Patients Who Need Early Discharge Planning for Special Dispositions

A Comparison of Alternative Techniques

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9103463
AutoresThomas S Inui (University of Washington, autor de correspondencia), K Stevenson (0000-0003-0345-5193, University of Washington), Kay M Stevenson, Diane Plorde (Health Services Research & Development), Ileana Murphy (Health Services Research & Development)
Año1981
Volumen19
Número9
Páginas922-929
Fecha de publicación1981-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaMedical Care (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0025-7079 • E-ISSN: 1537-1948
EditorialOvid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1097/00005650-198109000-00004
PMID6270474
OpenAlexW1991998791
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas1

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