At 8 years old, he was a happy second grader and enthusiastic soccer player. Then, his family’s car hit a median on the highway, and the crash ejected him from the vehicle. He spent nearly 3 months in ...

Virtua Health post discharge program cuts readmissions and shortens hospital stays using remote monitoring and coordinated care.

In the last few years, rates of hospital readmissions have become a key indicator of care quality, and for good reason. When significant numbers of patients in post-acute care settings experience a ...

The business of caring is a stressful one. Within the hospital, clinicians face an ever-increasing amount of pressure to do more with less, with our work held accountable to metrics and time pressures ...

Integrating an elderly patient’s informal caregivers — family members, friends, partners, neighbors and other loved ones — into the discharge process may potentially reduce the patient’s likelihood of ...

A predictive AI program being developed at the Université de Moncton aims to forecast how long a patient will need care, ...

Recently, an 88-year-old member of my family underwent elective spinal surgery for disabling back pain. While the duration of hospitalization for anyone after surgery can be unpredictable, we were ...

Discharge planning begins at admission. Let me repeat: Discharge planning begins at admission. Unfortunately, more often than not, discharge planning begins the night before or the morning of ...

A recent study found that patients who had cataract surgery were satisfied overall with discharge teaching quality, were well prepared for discharge, and had good postdischarge outcomes. Patients who ...

Sending discharge letters to patients as well as their GPs when they leave hospital could make a substantial difference to patient outcomes, according to a new study by University of Warwick ...

After hip fracture surgery, a patient is stabilized but is given only hours to choose a rehabilitation facility before discharge. In the days after Thanksgiving in 2022, my sister’s health care ...

SEVENTEEN patients were still waiting to leave Jersey’s mental health wards at the end of April – despite the introduction of a controversial new regulation allowing some discharge-ready patients to ...