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Patients' Perceptions Of Hospital Discharge Informational Content, Lynn Rose Maloney, Marianne Weiss
Patients' Perceptions Of Hospital Discharge Informational Content, Lynn Rose Maloney, Marianne Weiss
College of Nursing Faculty Research and Publications
Ensuring that patients' informational needs have been met prior to hospital discharge sets the stage for successful self-management of recovery at home. This secondary analysis study aims to identify differences in the amount of discharge teaching content needed and received by adult medical-surgical patients on the basis of their sociodemographic characteristics and hospitalization-related factors. The Quality of Discharge Teaching Scale (QDTS) is used to measure patients' perceptions of the amount of discharge-related informational content they needed and received. Eighty-nine percent of patients receive more informational content than they perceived they needed. Nonwhite patients report more content needed than White patients. …