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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/unanticipated-death-after-discharge-home-emergency-department
November 16, 2022 - linked hospital records and state death records to identify patients who died within 7 days of being discharged
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/33597/psn-pdf
April 10, 2024 - facilities, and long-
term acute care hospitals all providing medical and nursing care to patients who are discharged … Nursing homes admit long-term care patients but also admit patients that are discharged from the hospital … Post-acute or
short stay patients are expected to stay a few days to weeks and then be discharged home
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/45887/psn-pdf
August 15, 2018 - WebM&M
commentary discussed an incident involving a patient readmitted to the hospital after being discharged
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/day-passes-vulnerable-patients-psychiatric-hospitals-can-have-dangerous-even-fatal
October 29, 2014 - article reports on unintended consequences associated with a strategy to help patients adapt to being discharged
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/poorly-advanced-directives
August 01, 2018 - After treatment for his infection, he returned to his baseline health status and was discharged home. … hospitalized patients who have an order in place.( 9 ) However, they are not valid after the patient is discharged … The POLST form then accompanies the patient as he or she transfers between facilities or is discharged
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/real-heartache
October 01, 2018 - pain, the unremarkable ECG, the normal troponin, and the response to the GI cocktail, the ED physician discharged … suggested that improved ECG reading skills might have identified the 2% of patients that were prematurely discharged … benign nature of this diagnosis, the clinician did not pursue any further workup or evaluation and discharged
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/sequential-implementation-equipped-geriatric-medication-safety-program-learning-health-system
January 19, 2022 - intervention intended to reduce potentially inappropriate prescribing among adults aged 65 and older who are discharged
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/846127/psn-pdf
March 15, 2023 - He was treated with antibiotics and bowel
rest and discharged three days later with a plan to follow … He was discharged after one week of intravenous antibiotics and
drainage, with instructions to return … Patients are often discharged with ongoing care needs
but may receive suboptimal care when there is
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/early-prescribing-outcomes-after-exporting-equipped-medication-safety-improvement-programme
September 09, 2020 - intervention intended to reduce potentially inappropriate prescribing among older adults who are discharged
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/opioid-prescribing-after-childbirth-and-risk-serious-opioid-related-events-cohort-study
September 23, 2020 - This study prospectively followed 161,318 women who were discharged after childbirth between January
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49673/psn-pdf
December 01, 2012 - , the
unremarkable ECG, the normal troponin, and the response to the GI cocktail, the ED physician discharged … suggested that improved ECG reading skills
might have identified the 2% of patients that were prematurely discharged … benign nature of this diagnosis, the clinician did not pursue any further workup or
evaluation and discharged
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49601/psn-pdf
April 01, 2010 - He was treated with
"conservative" therapy after his platelet count was found to be normal and discharged … He returned to
the ED 24 hours later with recurrence of epistaxis and was once again discharged home … The
patient's symptoms resolved, he received 4 units of packed red blood cells, and he was discharged
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/geriatric-medication-reconciliation-home-setting
September 01, 2021 - June 20, 2012
Managing the care of patients discharged from home health: a quiet threat
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/what-patient-centered-should-mean-confessions-extremist
August 04, 2021 - February 14, 2007
WebM&M Cases
Discharged Blindly
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/administering-high-strength-insulin-pen-device-hospital
September 21, 2022 - 28, 2020
Improving the quality of insulin prescribing for people with diabetes being discharged
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/national-patient-safety-goal-improve-health-care-equity
September 11, 2019 - September 30, 2015
Antibiotic prescribing errors in patients discharged from the pediatric
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/risk-factors-retained-surgical-items-meta-analysis-and-proposed-risk-stratification-system
January 18, 2013 - A past AHRQ WebM&M commentary describes a patient who was discharged with a retained surgical item
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/intervention-improve-transitions-nicu-ambulatory-care-quasi-experimental-study
December 30, 2014 - provide dedicated health coaching and enhanced personal health records to families with infants being discharged
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/insurers-care-transition-program-emphasizes-medication-reconciliation-reduces-readmissions
November 08, 2017 - provided pharmacist support to perform medication reconciliation and care coordination for patients discharged
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/older-veterans-and-emergency-department-discharge-information
March 02, 2011 - patients and their caregivers often did not understand key elements of the information they received when discharged