Effective discharge planning timely assignment of an estimated date of discharge

Australian Health Review

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 357-363

  Ou, Lixin ^a   Chen, Jack ^a   Young, Lis ^a   Santiano, Nancy ^a   Baramy, La Stacey ^a   Hillman, Ken ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

admission; elderly; length of stay

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052241623     PISSN: 01565788     EISSN: 14498944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/AH09843     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Ibrahim J Buick M Majoor J McNeil J. Performance Indicators for Effective Discharge. Melbourne: Acute Health Division Victorian Government Department of Human Services;2000.
2. Rudd C, Smith J. Discharge planning. Nurs Stand 2002; 17(5): 33-7
3. Shared responsibility for patient care between hospitals and community-an effective dischargepolicy.Sydney: NSW Departmentof Health; 2001.
4. Waters K. Discharge planning: an explorative study of the process of discharge planning on geriatric wards. J Adv Nurs 1987; 12: 71-83. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2648.1987.tb01305.x
5. Managing Beds Better Balancing Supply and Demand. Canberra: Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care; 1999.
6. Achieving timely simple discharge from hospital: a toolkit for the multi-disciplinary team. London: Department of Health; 2004.
7. Supplementary Information for the Effective Discharge Strategy Performance Indicators Audit. Melbourne: Department of Human Services, Victoria Health; 2001.
8. Lees L, Delpino R. Facilitating aneffective discharge from hospital.Nurs Times 2007; 103(29): 30-1.
9. Discharge Planning: Responsive Standards (Revised May 2007). Sydney: NSW Department of Health; 2007.
10. Houghton A, Bowling A, Clarke KD, Hopkins AP, Jones I. Does a dedicated discharge coordinator improve the quality of hospital discharge? Qual Health Care 1996; 5(2): 89-96. doi:10.1136/qshc.5.2.89 (Pubitemid 126510383)
11. Liverpool Health Service Corporate Policy Manual: Patient Flow Management. Sydney: Liverpool Health Service, Liverpool Hospital; 2004.
12. Health Information Exchange. Sydney: NSW Department of Health; 2005.
13. Statistical Clearing House. Sydney: NSW Department of Health; 2006.
14. Charlson ME, Pompei P, Ales KL, MacKenzie CR. A new method of classifying prognostic comorbidity in longitudinal studies development and validation. J Chron Dis 1987; 40(5): 373-83. (Pubitemid 17055592)
15. Romano PS, Roost LL, Jollis JG. Presentation adapting a clinical comorbidity index for use with ICD-9-CM administrative data: differing perspectives. J Clin Epidemiol1993; 46(10): 1075-9. doi:10.1016/0895-4356(93) 90103-8 (Pubitemid 23302074)
16. Bed management demand and discharge predictors: supporting the wait for a bed checklist & bed management toolkit. London: Department of Health; 2004.
17. Effective Discharge Strategy Performance Indicators Definitions and Reporting Guide. Melbourne: Department of Human Services Victoria Health; 2002.
18. Lees L, Holmes C. Estimating date of discharge at ward level: a pilot study. Nurs Stand 2005; 19(17): 40-3.
19. D'Hoore W, Sicotte C, Tilquin C. Risk adjustment in outcome assessment: the Charlson comorbidity index. Methods Inf Med 1993; 32: 382-7. (Pubitemid 24001924)
20. Sundararajan V, Henderson T, Perry C, Muggivan A, Quan H, Ghali WA. New ICD-10 version of the Charlson comorbidity index predicted in-hospital mortality. J Clin Epidemiol 2004; 57: 1288-94. doi:10.1016/j.jclinepi.2004.03. 012 (Pubitemid 40023149)
21. Anthony MK, Hudson-Barr DC. Successful patient discharge. A comprehensive model of facilitators and barriers. J Nurs Adm 1998; 28(3): 48-55. doi:10.1097/00005110-199803000-00010 (Pubitemid 28125518)
22. Rothman KJ, Greenland S, Winters R. Modern Epidemiology. Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott-Raven; 1998.