2018 Volume 19 Issue 2 Pages 65-68
The number of patients with prolonged hospitalization had not yet been expectedly decreased, although medical social workers and nurses of the coordination team for patient discharge are involved. Therefore, we modified the listing system of the patients who need plans for earlier discharge on the regular basis, because we need information as effective as possible. To consider patients for early discharge, the team listed the patient who might be hospitalized for long period, based on the information of the patients who had stayed for a prolonged period in our hospital.
The patients hospitalized over 20 days were extracted and the team investigated the information of delay factors of each patient on a weekly basis. As a result, we obtained the appropriate timing to assess the period of stay for each patients and awareness among the floor staffs for the support and the coordination of patient's discharge. Ten months after the commencement of the modified listing system, the number of the planned discharge support increased up to 164, and the number of patients hospitalized longer than 30 days decreased by 62. The listing system was a useful medical information.
