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One after the other, videotapes on primetime news showed a patient, Esmin Green, being ignored by ED staff as she lay dying on a waiting room floor in a Brooklyn psychiatric hospital after waiting almost 24 hours for a bed. What impact will this "horror story" case, and others like it, have on ED litigation?
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One key to discharge planning is understanding what might prevent your patient from following medication and other instructions.
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Sometimes the best response to regulatory and payer changes in health care is to improve the discharge planning process.
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Transitions in health care are changing more quickly than patients' expectations, which is why it's important to address these expectations head-on, an expert notes.
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Hospitals across the United States are seeing an increase in patients who have limited English proficiency (LEP), and this means discharge planners must plan accordingly.
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Too often health care professionals give patients instructions and education without taking the additional step of making sure they understand.
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Discharge planners know intuitively that what they do matters to patients' health and safety and to reducing the public health costs of repeated hospitalizations.
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Discharge planning for orthopedic surgery patients at one major hospital begins well in advance of patients being admitted for surgery.
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When hospitals rely on a patient's family members to interpret medical news, they might be placing the patient at risk, an expert says.
