Does instability on hospital discharge increase the risk of adverse clinical outcomes in patients with pneumonia?
Pneumonia guidelines should include objective criteria for judging stability on discharge to prevent adverse outcomes.
Instability on discharge is associated with adverse clinical outcomes. Pneumonia guidelines and pathways should include objective criteria for judging stability on discharge to ensure that efforts to shorten length of stay do not jeopardize patient safety.
Halm et al. (Mon,) studied this question.