Key result
Adding a standardized discharge planning assessment to usual care significantly reduced patient-reported unmet needs (P=0.01) and problems complying with discharge instructions (P=0.04).
Why the study?
Does a standardized discharge planning assessment reduce patient-reported problems and unmet needs after discharge in hospitalized adult patients?
Does a standardized discharge planning assessment reduce patient-reported problems and unmet needs after discharge in hospitalized adult patients?
p-value: p=.01
Adding a standardized discharge planning assessment to usual care reduces patient-reported unmet needs and problems complying with discharge instructions.
May inform discharge planning in similar cohorts; hypothesis-generating and requires randomized confirmation before practice change.
The purpose of the study was to determine whether a difference exists in patient-reported problems and unmet needs after discharge when a standardized discharge planning assessment is added to usual care by staff nurses. Two groups of 130 adult patients were enrolled while hospitalized. The intervention group patients reported fewer unmet needs (P = .01) and had fewer problems complying with their discharge instructions (P = .04). Standardizing discharge planning assessments by staff nurses may improve identification of continuing care needs.
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Holland et al. (2012) studied Hospitalized patients (n=260). Standardized discharge planning assessment vs. Usual care was evaluated on Patient-reported problems and unmet needs after discharge (p=.01). Adding a standardized discharge planning assessment to usual care significantly reduced patient-reported unmet needs (P=0.01) and problems complying with discharge instructions (P=0.04).
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