Characterizing pre-discharge interventions to reduce length of stay for older adults: A scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Hospital pre-discharge interventions are becoming one of the leading strategies to promote early discharge. For older adult patients, it remains unclear what these interventions are and how they affect discharge outcomes.

Objective

This scoping review categorizes pre-discharge interventions promoting early acute care hospital discharging or total hospital length of stay reductions among older adults, synthesizes contextual factors (e.g., cost, staffing) driving implementation, and assesses the perceived intervention's impact.

Design

The review followed the five states of the Arksey and O'Malley framework and the PRISMA-ScR extension. The PubMed, Embase, and Scopus databases were searched from 1983 to 2020 for pre-discharge interventions designed or adapted

SUBMITTER: Garcia E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11809920 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature