Assessment Of Patients Readiness For Hospital Discharge And Associated Factors Among Medical Emergency Patients In Black Lion Specialized Teaching Hospital Adult Emergency Department Addis Ababa Ethiopia January 2020g.c.
Introduction: Improving health institution discharge processes, decreasing readmissions andrnemergency department visits after discharge is on the countrywide issue for health carernreform and health facility-based improvement tasks, which are unplanned, adverse,rnpotentially avoidable, and costly outcomes of hospitalization caused by low patient readinessrnfor hospital discharge. A patient's readiness for Hospital Discharge is defined as a patient‟srnassessment of their own preparedness for discharge and their ability to cope with their illnessrnat home. However, a little is known about whether emergency medical patients sufficientlyrnprepared for discharge to home after acute care at intermediate phase of recovery. rnObjective: To assess patients‟ readiness for discharge and associated factors in thernemergency department of black lion specialized teaching hospital Addis Ababa Ethiopiarnfrom February 17 to July 2020G.C rnMethod: An institutional-based cross-sectional prospective study was conducted and allrnpatients with a diagnosis of medical conditions, and ready for discharge during the studyrnperiod were included and the collected data was evaluated with SPSS version 25 software. rnResults; the total number of respondents was 159; the mean age of the study subjects is 49rnwith a standard deviation of ± 16.7 the majority of the patients 106 (66.7%) reported lowrnRHD scores (