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Showing 1 to 20 of 116 for “"hospital discharge"”.
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Quality of Hospital Discharge Abstract Databases over Time
Objective: To assess the validity of hospital discharge abstract databases (DAD) in regards to patient comorbidities, with a focus on the trend of validity from 2002 to 2013. Method: We compared patient comorbidity coding in DAD, against a reference standard of the Alberta Provincial Project for …
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Continued Occupational Therapy for Stroke Patients after Hospital Discharge
… therapist to stroke patients after their discharge from a stroke unit. One hundred and ten patients were recruited and randomly allocated to either a control or intervention group. Those in the intervention group were reviewed regularly by an occupational therapist (at 2, 8, 16 and 24 …
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Moving home : exploring older peoples' experiences of hospital discharge
… experiences of the older person leaving acute hospital care and returning to their own home. The project aims are summarised as below:*To develop an understanding of individuals' experiences within discharge preparation and planned support while they are preparing for home, getting home and …
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Exploration of care continuity during the hospital discharge process
Background Communication regarding medicines at hospital discharge via discharge summaries is notoriously poor and negatively impacts on patient care. With the process being dependant on the quality of patient records during admission, junior doctors who write them and General Practitioners (GPs) …
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Caregiver readiness for hospital discharge of an older adult
Aim: To explore caregiver readiness for the hospital discharge of an older adult. Background: Older adults rely on their caregivers during hospital discharge. However, caregivers are not routinely included in discharge preparation. Caregivers’ experiences of hospital discharge have been studied …
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Narratives of brain injury and self-management after hospital discharge
… accounts of TBI-related experiences since hospital discharge, using a qualitative longitudinal design. I specifically relied on narrative interviews with ten dyads, consisting of one person who had recently sustained a TBI and their chosen ‘significant other’ person, at two time intervals. …
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Medicines Management after Hospital Discharge: Patients’ Personal and Professional Networks
… safety of medicines management when people leave hospital is an international priority. There is evidence that poor co-ordination of medicines between providers can cause preventable harm to patients, yet there is insufficient evidence of the structure and function of the medicines management …
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Coreference resolution on entities and events for hospital discharge summaries
… resolution on a specific type of EMR, the hospital discharge summary. We treat coreference resolution as a binary classification problem. Our approach yields insights into the critical features for coreference resolution for entities that fall into five medical semantic categories that …
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Protecting the Rights of Limited English Proficiency Patients During Hospital Discharge
Discharge instructions were originally created to alleviate the burden of transitioning from inpatient hospitalization to outpatient care. The US healthcare model's evolution throughout the 20th and 21st centuries has firmly distinguished inpatient providers from outpatient providers, with little …
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Antepartum, Intrapartum, and Postpartum Predictors of Readiness for Hospital Discharge and Post-Discharge Outcomes
… the lives of women and their families where the discharge decision-making process involves careful judgment in projecting the mom's ability to cope with care needs after discharge. Research examining the predictors of discharge readiness and post-discharge outcomes taking into consideration …
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Developing a New Model of Care for Patients' Medication Supply at Hospital Discharge: A Multi-Perspective Approach
Hospital discharge is a complex process that can result in errors and delays for patients, particularly around the supply of medicines and communication of information. This programme of work (PoW) aimed to develop an innovative model of care for the supply of medication at hospital discharge to …
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Factors That Influence the Decision-Making of an Integrated Rehabilitation Team When Choosing a Post-Hospital Discharge Destination For Survivors of Stroke
… Increasingly, stroke care in Canadian hospitals relies on an interdisciplinary rehabilitation team approach to provide immediate rehabilitation services and to make decisions about discharge destination for stroke survivors. Currently, there is little research on how interdisciplinary …
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Using trauma as a lens to explore the experience of mothering a very premature infant in the first year after hospital discharge
… mothering these infants in the first year after hospital discharge. A purposive sample was collected, comprising 8 mothers who had given birth between 28 and 32 weeks’ gestation within the previous 3-5 years. 8 face-to-face, semi-structured interviews were conducted and Interpretative …
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A study of health care reform effects on the function and philosophy of discharge planners: a proposed change in the curriculum for hospital discharge planners
… RAND studies and data from a sample community hospital for comparisons of average lengths of stay, post hospital utilization, characteristics of patients who have a propensity to use post hospital care by gender, age and diagnosis. The study examines how reimbursement has effected patient care …
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Hospital to home : family caregiver perspectives of discharge transitions of seniors with dementia
Hospital discharge transitions can be challenging for seniors and their caregivers. Seniors with dementia are particularly vulnerable and are at increased risk for adverse outcomes from poorly executed hospital to home discharge transitions. Family caregivers play a vital role in supporting seniors …
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Nitrate Consumption and Physical Function in ICU Patients
… nitrate ingestion improved physical function at hospital discharge. METHODS: ICU patients (n=22) were randomized to receive eith er nitrate rich (400 mg) or nitrate depleted beetroot juice (placebo) for the duration of their hospital stay. Plasma nitrate and nitrite were measured prior to and …
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Lower extremity amputation in people with diabetes: Trends and determinants
… has been less well-explored. Methods: Using hospital discharge data, trends in LEA rates in people with and without diabetes were described and compared to other countries. Background work included concordance studies exploring the reliability of hospital discharge data for recording LEA and …
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