TY - JOUR
T1 - Causes of delayed hospital discharge among adult clients
T2 - a scoping review
AU - Modas, Diana Andreia Santos
AU - Nunes, Elisabete Maria Garcia Teles
AU - Charepe, Zaida Borges
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul,Faculdade de Educacao. All rights reserved.
PY - 2019/6/10
Y1 - 2019/6/10
N2 - OBJECTIVE: To map the existing evidence on the causes of hospital discharge delays among adult clients. METHODS: A scoping review was conducted. We searched in the Ebscohost' plataform, in PubMed, and in grey literature, consulting the bibliographic references of the documents found. RESULTS: From the 22 articles analyzed it was verified that the delay in hospital discharge is due to causes related to community resources, namely the lack of vacancies in health units, and social reasons; to organizational causes related to health care; to individual causes, standing out family and financial issues; culminating in organizational causes related to hospital management. CONCLUSION: The delay in hospital discharge is multifactorial. It's necessary to monitor the hospitalization process, focusing on early discharge planning.
AB - OBJECTIVE: To map the existing evidence on the causes of hospital discharge delays among adult clients. METHODS: A scoping review was conducted. We searched in the Ebscohost' plataform, in PubMed, and in grey literature, consulting the bibliographic references of the documents found. RESULTS: From the 22 articles analyzed it was verified that the delay in hospital discharge is due to causes related to community resources, namely the lack of vacancies in health units, and social reasons; to organizational causes related to health care; to individual causes, standing out family and financial issues; culminating in organizational causes related to hospital management. CONCLUSION: The delay in hospital discharge is multifactorial. It's necessary to monitor the hospitalization process, focusing on early discharge planning.
KW - Patient discharge
KW - Nursing care
KW - Length of stay
KW - Alta do paciente
KW - Cuidados de enfermagem
KW - Tempo de internação
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U2 - 10.1590/1983-1447.2019.20180130
DO - 10.1590/1983-1447.2019.20180130
M3 - Review article
C2 - 31188986
AN - SCOPUS:85068154848
SN - 0102-6933
VL - 40
JO - Revista Gaúcha Enfermagem
JF - Revista Gaúcha Enfermagem
M1 - e20180130
ER -