A free discharge checklist and care transition plan for patients is available from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation as part of its Care About Your Care program. Care About Your Care is an RWJF ...
Bringing a child home from psychiatric hospitalization is a positive step, but it can also bring about feelings of anxiety around ensuring your child’s well-being. The doctors have determined that ...
Unnecessary hospital readmissions occur for various reasons, including incomplete discharge planning, a lack of follow-up from the hospital, patients’ difficulty in adhering to medication regimens and ...
According to the researchers, the discharge planning process has long-term implications because part of the life course of adults who were born preterm is positively and negatively influenced early on ...
My mother, age 78, had a stroke 3 recently. She was transferred to a rehabilitation center where she will stay 2-3 weeks. Her doctors are confident that she will be able to resume a fairly active and ...
The Trump administration issued a long-awaited final rule on how hospitals must handle discharge planning, introducing new requirements on records access. The rule released on Thursday by the Centers ...
Instead of thinking of patients as "discharged" once they leave the hospital, which implies care is finished, many healthcare professionals believe it's time to treat home as a fundamental care ...
Post-discharge care is often a major stumbling block in managing patient outcomes. Inadequate post-discharge care is a common contributor to hospital readmissions, which can lead to additional ...