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Validation Of Patient And Nurse Short Forms Of The Readiness For Hospital Discharge Scale And Their Relationship To Return To The Hospital, Marianne E. Weiss, Linda L. Costa, Kathleen Bobay, Olga Yakusheva
Validation Of Patient And Nurse Short Forms Of The Readiness For Hospital Discharge Scale And Their Relationship To Return To The Hospital, Marianne E. Weiss, Linda L. Costa, Kathleen Bobay, Olga Yakusheva
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Objective: To validate patient and nurse short forms for discharge readiness assessment and their associations with 30-day readmissions and emergency department (ED) visits.
Data Sources/Study Setting: A total of 254 adult medical-surgical patients and their discharging nurses from an Eastern US tertiary hospital between May and November, 2011. Study Design Prospective longitudinal design, multinomial logistic regression analysis.
Data Collection/Extraction Methods: Nurses and patients independently completed an eight-item Readiness for Hospital Discharge Scale on the day of discharge. Patient characteristics, readmissions, and ED visits were electronically abstracted.
Principal Findings: Nurse assessment of low discharge readiness was associated with a six- to …