Planning a patient’s discharge the day they are admitted is important — but not enough to fix the complex bottlenecks that slow hospital throughput and lead to emergency department boarding. These ...

Patients at Kisii Teaching and Referral Hospital (KTRH) in Kisii County have raised concerns over what they describe as a ...

A new study shows the value of integrating caregivers into the discharge process for elderly patients: far fewer readmissions. Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh Health Policy Institute ...

The discharge process for patients from a hospital is not an easy one, and if done wrong could also lead to costly readmissions--but the use of technology could make the transition much smoother, ...

The importance of nurse-led discharge has been highlighted in government plans to overhaul the NHS discharge process (Chatterjee, 2004). The new guidance recommends that in the case of simple ...

Patients are being put at risk because of a lack of staff awareness about discharging them from hospital, a report has said. Terminally ill patients with days left to live are among those this has ...

Examination of factors associated with discharge lag time and how this metric plays an important role in managing hospital throughput. Objectives: The purpose of this study was to examine the factors ...

The Pennsylvania health system has eliminated redundant processes and reduced the time and number of people involved in a discharge while boosting patient satisfaction scores. Patient discharge can be ...

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 ...