Why the study?
Does nurse and patient assessment of discharge readiness predict 30-day readmissions and ED visits in adult medical-surgical patients?
Population
254 adult medical-surgical patients and their discharging nurses from an Eastern US tertiary hospital
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
30-day
Authors
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May support nurse assessments in readmission risk models; leaves open need for prospective validation before practice change.
Does nurse and patient assessment of discharge readiness predict 30-day readmissions and ED visits in adult medical-surgical patients?
Nurse assessment of discharge readiness is a strong predictor of 30-day readmission risk and should be incorporated into readmission risk identification strategies.
Weiss et al. (2013) studied this question.
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