Historically the tasks involved in discharge planning have been a part of the practice of social work as well as the field of nursing. Based on this history and need for collaboration, a study conducted in 1998 measured the responses of 178 nurses and social workers who practiced discharge planning in 58 different hospitals in Alabama. According to the information gathered in this sample, it wa...

OBJECTIVE We examined whether the addition of a standardized discharge planning template (DPT) for the electronic medical record facilitated scheduling of outpatient neurology follow-up appointments in children hospitalized with seizures. METHODS We reviewed medical records of patients discharged from a children's hospital with a diagnosis of seizures between January 2012 and June 2013. The s...

BACKGROUND Healthcare professionals engage in discharge planning of people with dementia during hospitalisation, however plans for transitioning the person into community services can be patchy and ineffective. The aim of this study was to report acute, community and residential care health professionals' (HP) perspectives on the discharge process and transitional care arrangements for people w...

The UK National Health Service (NHS) is faced with problems of managing patient discharge and preventing the problems that result from it such as frequent readmissions, delayed discharge, long waiting lists, bed blocking and other such consequences. The problem is exacerbated by the growth in size, complexity and the number of chronic diseases in the NHS. In addition, there is an increase in de...

Hospital discharge planning has become increasingly important in an era of prospective payment and managed care. Given the changes in tasks, decisions, and environments involved, it is important to identify how to move such planning from an art to an empirically based decisionmaking process. The authors use a decision-sciences framework to review the state-of-the-art of hospital discharge plann...

Banyak keluarga yang tinggal bersama penderita tuberkulosis tidak memahami tugas dalam merawat tuberculosis. Discharge planning termasuk salah satu upaya tepat dilakukan perawat guna meningkatkan peran serta penanganan pasien Perawat perlu melakukan discharge dengan baik supaya dapat menjalankan perawatan pada tuberculosis di Rumah. Tujuan penelitian ini untuk mengetahui hubungan pelaksanaan ke...