Implementing the IDEAL Discharge Checklist: Implications for Transitions from Hospital to Home

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Identifier EBP2021_poster_TOPHAM
Title Implementing the IDEAL Discharge Checklist: Implications for Transitions from Hospital to Home
Creator Topham, Emily
Description Evidence shows that a systematic and coordinated approach to transitions from the hospital to home improve patient outcomes, including a reduction in hospital readmissions.2,3This is a proposal for a Quality Improvement project to pilot the use of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's IDEAL discharge process, asking this question: In adult surgical patients, how does the use of the IDEAL discharge process affect patient outcomes post-discharge, including readmission rates, as compared with a standard discharge process, with-in a 30-day period?
Subject Posters as Topic; Evidence-Based Nursing; Evidence-Based Practice; Quality Improvement; Transitional Care; Patient Discharge; Patient Discharge; Aftercare; Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care; Health Care Costs; Patient Readmission; Checklist; Patient Care Planning
Publisher Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah
Date 2021
Date Digital 2021
Language eng
ARK ark:/87278/s6kx1hgz
Relation is Part of Nursing 4605 Evidence Based Practice Posters
Format application/pdf
Rights © 2021 College of Nursing, University of Utah
Type Text
Setname ehsl_nursebp
ID 1715188
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6kx1hgz
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