Developing Best Practice Guidance for Discharge Planning Using the RAND/UCLA Appropriateness Method.

ABSTRACT: Background: Discharge from acute mental health inpatient units is often a vulnerable period for patients. Multiple professionals and agencies are involved and processes and procedures are not standardized, often resulting in communication delays and co-ordination failures. Early and appropriate discharge planning and standardization of procedures could make inpatient care safer. Aim: To inform the development of a multi-component best practice guidance for discharge planning (including the 6 component SAFER patient flow bundle) to support safer patient transition from mental health hospitals to the community. Methods: Using the RAND/UCLA Appropriateness method, a panel of 10 professional stakeholders (psychiatrists, psychiatric nurses, clinical psychologists, pharmacis

SUBMITTER: Tyler N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8680088 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature