Discharge planning should start on the day of a patient's admission to IPR. As noted, IPR length of stay and goal expectations will vary based on patients' injury level and prognosis of the tumor or cancer that led to his or her SCI. A family meeting (Table 10.2) is an essential part...
Justification of hospital days and discharge delays in a non-selected population of acute stroke patients Using a published protocol, we evaluated a non-selected population of stroke patients to identify unnecessary days of hospitalisation in the Department of ... Philippe Vuadens,Myriam Schluep,Julien...
Provided the initial discharge letter has prescription details and is given to the patient to deliver to their GP, seven days supply of medication is sufficient.C. KennyPublic HealthKenny C. Hospital discharge medication: is seven days supply suffi- cient? Public Health. 1991;105(3):243-247....
User-friendly discharge information.Every hospital should provide you with a discharge packet, sometimes also called an "After Visit Summary." The AVS will contain some boilerplate instructions based on your admission diagnosis, but there should also be some personalization too. Ma...
2008 Through 2014 View LargeDownload Linear trends in mean monthly 30-day risk-adjusted readmission rates and 30-day risk-adjusted mortality rates after discharge from hospitalization for heart failure (A), acute myocardial infarction (B), and pneumonia (C) are shown for 3 periods: January 2008...
Meanwhile older individuals had longer stays in hospital prior to discharge compared to younger individuals; the median time to discharge among those aged 85+ ranged between 5.1 and 10.4 days, compared to between 0.8 and 2.4 days for those aged 0–14 and 15–24 (Fig. 4b). Those with a ...
The score was based on guideline-based recommendations for quality of care provided at the time of hospital discharge and during outpatient follow-up and consisted of the following: (1) use of evidence-based β-blockers at 50% or greater of the target dose; (2) use of angiotensin-...
Additional clinical outcomes were ICU mortality, hospital mortality, hospital length of stay, duration of mechanical ventilation, ventilator free days at ICU discharge, and at 30 days. Further details on the study procedure and patients’ clinical management have been previously published [8, 10]. ...
Among EMS-treated patients, the median (IQR) age was 64.0 (51.0-75.0) years, 3864 (64.6%) were male, and 1027 (17.2%) survived to hospital discharge. The total number of patients with OHCA increased by 19.0% (from 5963 in the prepandemic period to 7118 in the pandemic period), ...
Figure 2. Time to Discharge From Hospital Since Randomization View LargeDownload The median length of the hospital stay and the median length of observation time was 1.77 days (IQR, 1.03-2.80 days) for the high-flow oxygen group and 1.50 days (IQR, 0.85-2.44 days) for the standard oxygen ...