Improving the post-acute care discharge score (PACD) by adding patients' self-care abilities: A prospective cohort study.

BACKGROUND:Reducing delays in hospital discharge is important to improve transition processes and reduce health care costs. The recently proposed post-acute care discharge score focusing on the self-care abilities before hospital admission allows early identification of patients with a need for post...

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Main Authors: Daniel Koch, Philipp Schuetz, Sebastian Haubitz, Alexander Kutz, Beat Mueller, Helen Weber, Katharina Regez, Antoinette Conca, Triage Study Group
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0214194