January 25, 2015Research in Nursing & HealthOpen Access

Successful Electronic Implementation of Discharge Referral Decision Support Has a Positive Impact on 30‐ and 60‐day Readmissions

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Why the study?

Does the Discharge Decision Support System (D2S2) software reduce 30- and 60-day readmissions in hospitalized patients?

Structured PICO

Does the Discharge Decision Support System (D2S2) software reduce 30- and 60-day readmissions in hospitalized patients?

Population

Patients admitted to three hospitals across six intervention units and 76 concurrent comparison units

Intervention

Discharge Decision Support System (D2S2) software, which analyzes admission data to identify patients needing post-acute care and alerts discharge planners

Comparator

Concurrent comparison group of 76 units and pre-implementation baseline

Outcome

30- and 60-day readmissionshard clinical

Implementation of an electronic discharge referral decision support system significantly reduced 30- and 60-day hospital readmissions.

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Implication

May support D2S2 to lower readmissions; hypothesis-generating and requires RCTs before practice change.

Cite This Study

Bowles et al. (2015) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d56b2b75589c71d767c8fd https://doi.org/10.1002/nur.21643

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