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Thursday, December 11, 2014

Emergency Department Discharge Process

A new report from the American Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality outlines a conceptual framework of the emergency department (ED) discharge process and identifies elements of a high-quality discharge process. “Improving the Emergency Department Discharge Process: Environmental Scan Report” identifies best practices, tools, strategies and approaches for addressing problem areas and criteria/outcomes for assessing their effectiveness. Developed by researchers at the Johns Hopkins University Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, the report can be used by hospital EDs to identify:

  • What constitutes an effective discharge process and what constitutes discharge failures.
  • Socioeconomic or medical factors that increase a patient’s risk for a discharge failure.
  • Intervention tools or strategies shown to improve the discharge process.
  • Screening tools that have been used to predict hospital readmission and ED revisits.      

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