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Study: Hospital discharge processes still need work

August 21st, 2013 | Author: | Category: health news, helpful links

New research reveals hospitals need clearer, well-designed discharge   processes for older patients, noting that patient satisfaction with the   discharge process doesn’t indicate how well patients actually understand the   reason for hospitalization and post-discharge care goals, concludes a new study in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Researchers talked to about 400 patients 65 years and older discharged from   1,541-bed Yale-New Haven (Conn.) Hospital between May 2009 and April 2010 about   their experience, responses they compared to what was written in their medical   charts and their discharge instructions, reported Reuters.

Only 218 patients (59.6 percent) could accurately describe their diagnosis in   post-discharge interviews, while discharge instructions included 99 written   reasons for hospitalization (26.3 percent) that did not use language likely to   be comprehensible to patients.

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