Discharge Practices for COVID-19 Patients: Rapid Review of Published Guidance and Synthesis of Documents and Practices at 22 US Academic Medical Centers.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There are currently no evidence-based guidelines that provide standardized criteria for the discharge of COVID-19 patients from the hospital.

Objective

To address this gap in practice guidance, we reviewed published guidance and collected discharge protocols and procedures to identify and synthesize common practices.

Design

Rapid review of existing guidance from US and non-US public health organizations and professional societies and qualitative review using content analysis of discharge documents collected from a national sample of US academic medical centers with follow-up survey of hospital leaders SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: We reviewed 65 websites for major professional societies and public health organizations and collected documents from 22 Academic Me

SUBMITTER: Greysen SR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8034037 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature