INTRODUCTION: A good post hospital discharge planning facilitates the discharge, improves patients' health conditions and decreases the social costs. AIM: To assess the agreement of the discharge settings suggested by the public or private hospitals and by the district. METHOD: A random sample of 318 over 1152 discharge reports send in 2013 by Hospitals to the District service of ASLTO2 - Piedmont Region was selected. RESULTS: The agreement for discharge planning between public hospitals and District was 57.4% (50% for private hospitals), with differences according to the discharge setting: 75.3% for Home care, 61.3% for Nursing Homes, 44.4% long term rehabilitation, 42.9% for the Hospice and only 7.4% for specialized Nursing Homes. Reasons for lack of agreement were an inappropriate assessment of patients or family resources and of discharge settings. CONCLUSIONS: The District is in a better position for assessing the range services to be offered the to patients, their living and family conditions and thus, to identify the most suitable post discharge settings.
INTRODUCTION: A good post hospital discharge planning facilitates the discharge, improves patients' health conditions and decreases the social costs. AIM: To assess the agreement of the discharge settings suggested by the public or private hospitals and by the district. METHOD: A random sample of 318 over 1152 discharge reports send in 2013 by Hospitals to the District service of ASLTO2 - Piedmont Region was selected. RESULTS: The agreement for discharge planning between public hospitals and District was 57.4% (50% for private hospitals), with differences according to the discharge setting: 75.3% for Home care, 61.3% for Nursing Homes, 44.4% long term rehabilitation, 42.9% for the Hospice and only 7.4% for specialized Nursing Homes. Reasons for lack of agreement were an inappropriate assessment of patients or family resources and of discharge settings. CONCLUSIONS: The District is in a better position for assessing the range services to be offered the to patients, their living and family conditions and thus, to identify the most suitable post discharge settings.