Is a Pre-Discharge Checklist Useful?

A pre-discharge checklist of requirements for equipment, services, benefits and follow-up has been developed in a general rehabilitation unit. An analysis of 66 inpatients discharged after rehabilitation following a stroke or amputation within the past 2 years suggests that such a checklist is a use...

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Autores principales: Hunter, John, Weir, Alistair M, MacPherson, Kathryn, Mercer, Stewart
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Royal College of Physicians of London 1996
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Medical Audit
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5401530/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8709065
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description A pre-discharge checklist of requirements for equipment, services, benefits and follow-up has been developed in a general rehabilitation unit. An analysis of 66 inpatients discharged after rehabilitation following a stroke or amputation within the past 2 years suggests that such a checklist is a useful tool in ensuring that patients are sent home with optimum services and support. It is also a simple way of recording discharge data for audit and quality control purposes. It may be of benefit to a wider range of hospital services.
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spelling pubmed-54015302019-01-22 Is a Pre-Discharge Checklist Useful? Hunter, John Weir, Alistair M MacPherson, Kathryn Mercer, Stewart J R Coll Physicians Lond Medical Audit A pre-discharge checklist of requirements for equipment, services, benefits and follow-up has been developed in a general rehabilitation unit. An analysis of 66 inpatients discharged after rehabilitation following a stroke or amputation within the past 2 years suggests that such a checklist is a useful tool in ensuring that patients are sent home with optimum services and support. It is also a simple way of recording discharge data for audit and quality control purposes. It may be of benefit to a wider range of hospital services. Royal College of Physicians of London 1996 /pmc/articles/PMC5401530/ /pubmed/8709065 Text en © Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London 1996 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) , which permits non-commercial use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.
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