A standardized process to evaluate patients for their readiness to be discharged from an intensive care unit (ICU) can help ...

Under pressure, the Army recently agreed to conduct a review of the process by which soldiers are discharged from the service. This action comes in response to 12 senators demanding an investigation ...

Patients who are discharged after vascular surgeries to treat a wide range of ailments involving heart and blood flow issues are far more likely to be readmitted to the hospital for a preventable ...

“I didn’t know what to do, so I came back,” said my in-the-dark patient. He was calling me from the emergency department (ED), 5 days after I had discharged him from the hospital for an abdominal ...

Discharge planning plays a pivotal role in transitioning patients from one level of care to the next. This process requires patients, caregivers and providers to create an individualized plan to ...

"You can be discharged next week."It should be happy news, but the family's mind goes blank. "Wait, home care? What do I need to prepare? A bed? A toilet?"I have seen this "pre-discharge scramble" ...

Hospitals that involved family members or unpaid caregivers into the discharge planning process had a 25% reduction in the risk of elderly patients being readmitted within 90 days. A new study shows ...

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 ...