Methods Study Sample The study was conducted at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and the Presbyterian Medical Center of the University of Pennsylvania Health System and was approved by the institutional review boards at both institutions. All subjects screened for study participation were ...
Design. A purposeful and consecutive sample of eight DPCs was collected in which the future care of eight women, aged 70years or more, was discussed. Methods. Transcribed video recordings were analysed in two steps. 'The initial analysis' aimed at describing the structure and content of the ...
19,57 However, what may be clinically useful in the care of a patient at the beginning of an acute care episode may be different from what is useful for discharge planning. Specific investigations into how HIEs are used in care coordination vs clinical decision making could shed more light ...
This study tested the efficacy of a nurse-led discharge planning program for childhood asthma management, based on transition theory.MethodsA quasi-experimental design was used. The sample comprised 120 children with asthma and their parents (intervention group n = 60, control group n = 60)....
Design/methods In this secondary analysis of data from a longitudinal pilot study of family self-management discharge preparation, the correlational design used regression modeling with data from a convenience sample of 194 parents from two clinical units at a Midwest pediatric hospital. Data were coll...
Purpose: To study the influences of caregivers' anxiety, depression, perceived adequacy of income, and patient's dependence on the caregivers' readiness for hospital discharge.Design: A correlational predictive design.Methods: The sample consisted of 108 caregivers of patients with first time stroke ad...
HCPs identified that the discharge planning process is not initiated at initial hospital presentation, and typically begins to be considered when a patient is more medically stable. However, HCPs acknowledged that ideally discharge planning should begin from the patient's presentation to the ED to ...
2). This reflects realistic planning alternatives. For the sake of brevity, we use the terms “long screen” and “short screen” hereinafter to denote the different design velocities and angles as well. To investigate if a fish can be guided through the entrance area by higher flow ...
The specific activities implemented at each site were designed in response to a site-based gap analysis and action planning exercise undertaken by the hospital clinical and quality improvement teams, with guidance and coaching from the CONNECT-HF Academy, a group of heart failure clinicians and ...
Estimated Net Benefit (NB) of the 5 Models Over a Range of Decision Thresholds and Risk Horizons in the Prospective Validation Sample View LargeDownload Table 3. Predictors Used in the Analysis View LargeDownload Supplement 1. eMethods. eTable 1. Baseline Administrative Predictors eTable 2. ...