Patients who are discharged after vascular surgeries to treat a wide range of ailments involving heart and blood flow issues are far more likely to be readmitted to the hospital for a preventable ...

Every day, millions of people are discharged after extended hospital stays, but matching these patients with appropriate care facilities can be arduous, often reliant on months-old, inaccurate data.

Neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) discharge readiness is defined as the masterful attainment of technical skills and knowledge, emotional comfort, and confidence with infant care by the primary ...

Planning a patient’s discharge the day they are admitted is important — but not enough to fix the complex bottlenecks that slow hospital throughput and lead to emergency department boarding. These ...

Lees L (2010) Exploring the principles of best practice discharge to ensure patient involvement. Nursing Times; 106: 25, 10-14. Recent guidance features 10 practical steps to improve the process of ...

Liz Lees is consultant nurse and clinical dean; Andrea Field is associate head nurse at Solihull Hospital; both at Heart of England Foundation Trust. Lees L, Field A (2011) Implementing nurse-led ...

A new study shows the value of integrating caregivers into the discharge process for elderly patients: far fewer readmissions. Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh Health Policy Institute ...

Discharge planning begins at admission. Let me repeat: Discharge planning begins at admission. Unfortunately, more often than not, discharge planning begins the night before or the morning of ...

“I didn’t know what to do, so I came back,” said my in-the-dark patient. He was calling me from the emergency department (ED), 5 days after I had discharged him from the hospital for an abdominal ...

Patients are being put at risk because of a lack of staff awareness about discharging them from hospital, a report has said. Terminally ill patients with days left to live are among those this has ...