Impact of Social Risk Screening on Discharge Care Processes and Postdischarge Outcomes: A Pragmatic Mixed-Methods Clinical Trial During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Social risk screening during inpatient care is required in new CMS regulations, yet its impact on inpatient care and patient outcomes is unknown.

Objectives

To evaluate whether implementing a social risk screening protocol improves discharge processes, patient-reported outcomes, and 30-day service use.

Research design

Pragmatic mixed-methods clinical trial.

Subjects

Overall, 4130 patient discharges (2383 preimplementation and 1747 postimplementation) from general medicine and surgical services at a 528-bed academic medical center in the Intermountain United States and 15 attending physicians.

Measures

Documented family interaction, late discharge, patient-reported readiness for hospital discharge and postdischarge coping difficulties, readmiss

SUBMITTER: Wallace AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11373892 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature