Medical students and residents often have difficulty with discharge planning determining appropriate post-hospitalization level of care. As the process can be complex, physicians in-training do not engage until late into hospitalization or near day discharge. This paper offers a simple pyramid construct that categorizes common needs 4 areas tiers. topic is formally taught in medical education, ...

OBJECTIVE To describe the development, validity and application of a new instrument (PREPARED) for obtaining feedback from community consumers of discharge planning activities. DESIGN Iterative qualitative and quantitative investigations. SETTING The community catchment area of a metropolitan Australian tertiary public hospital. STUDY PARTICIPANTS Patients aged over 65 years, with a range...

PURPOSE OF STUDY The Early Screen for Discharge Planning (ESDP) is a decision support tool developed in an urban academic medical center. High ESDP scores identify patients with nonroutine discharge plans who would benefit from early discharge planning intervention. We aimed to determine the predictive performance of the ESDP in a different practice setting. PRIMARY PRACTICE SETTING Rural reg...