Delayed transfer of care

National Library for Health Management Briefing, 2007. 

A useful briefing with recent references and examples of good practice.

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Working Together to Improve the Patient Journey – Improvement Report

Institute for Healthcare Improvement, 2006

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What is the efficacy of discharge planning protocols, i.e., managing the transition from hospital to community? What should be included in the plan?

New Zealand Health Technology Assessment (NZHTA), 2002

Link: http://nzhta.chmeds.ac.nz/publications.htm

A systematic review of discharge arrangements for older people

Parker S G et al HTA Vol.6: No.4.

The National Coordinating Centre for Health Technology Assessment (NCCHTA), 2002

The evidence from these trials does not suggest that discharge arrangements have effects on mortality or length of hospital stay. This review supports the concept that arrangements for discharging older people from hospital can have beneficial effects on subsequent readmission rates. Interventions provided across the hospital-community interface, both in hospital and in the patient's home, showed the largest effect.

Link:http://www.hta.ac.uk/execsumm/summ604.htm

Moving patients, moving medicines, moving safely: discharge and transfer planning (guidance)

Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, 2006.

http://www.rpsgb.org.uk/pdfs/dischtransfplanguid.pdf

Delayed Hospital Discharge: the social care perspective

Original author Jon Glasby. Last updated by Susan Fowler, May 2007.

This briefing outlines the major issues and current thinking surrounding delayed hospital discharge from the social care perspective. It includes targets, a section on 'What do I need to do?' and key documents to read. ast

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