Assessing health literacy levels soon after hospital admission and adjusting discharge instructions accordingly helped reduce ...

Integrating an elderly patient’s informal caregivers — family members, friends, partners, neighbors and other loved ones — into the discharge process may potentially reduce the patient’s likelihood of ...

This study demonstrates that the implementation of a discharge navigation program led to earlier writing of discharge orders and patient release from the hospital. Objectives: The aim of this study ...

Healthcare providers can improve their efficiency and potentially improve patient satisfaction through a standardized discharge strategy, according to a study published in the American Journal of ...

Discharge before noon was associated with longer length of stay in patients with medical diagnoses and shorter length of stay in surgical patients. Objectives: To analyze the impact of discharge ...

Nurses feel "empowered" with an integrated patient discharge analytics technology that leverages artificial intelligence to analyze administrative tasks, such as discharge coordination, test ordering ...

An effective hospital discharge process created by Cleveland Clinic is pivotal in the handoff of patients to postacute-care providers. Hospital discharge is a complex process involving the primary ...

The workshop’s second panel was structured with one presentation and three reactions to that presentation. In the main presentation, Mark Williams, director of the Center for Health Services Research ...