"That is not a responsibility we have the competence to discharge".
The GPEQ [ 11] comprises the following scales which have good evidence for data quality, reliability and validity: workforce situation (4 items), discharge letter (3 items), competence (4 items), guidance (3 items) and emergency situations (2 items).
The General Practitioner Experiences Questionnaire is described in detail elsewhere 1 and comprises the following scales with good evidence for data quality, reliability and validity: workforce situation (four items), discharge letter (three items), competence (four items), guidance (three items) and emergency situations (two items).
11 Curricula interventions (eg, teaching transitional care practices) have been rated as useful for increasing knowledge about adverse events in transitional care, especially for competence in discharging chronically ill patients in a safer manner and for educating patients on discharge medications.
Mothers were not asked in this study whether they considered the length of their hospital stay to be appropriate and this question could have been pertinent since there may be societal pressure on new mothers to prove their "competence" by choosing discharge early after birth.
Estimates, based on clast size, of stream power and competence, bed shear stress and discharge reveal that hydrological conditions during the Late Pleistocene (∼90 ka) were comparable to the present day.
Similar results were obtained by Weisman et al., where they found that having a resident make a phone call to recently discharged patient had no appreciable impact on residents' competence in performing medication reconciliation and related tasks [ 25].
Parental competence was evaluated three weeks after hospital discharge in 177 infants.
However, the competence of allied health teams in facilitating safe discharge of ED patients has been well established in a systematic review of the literature [ 24], hence we sought to answer another question that had not previously been addressed.
The Bangalore principles of judicial conduct (pdf) set out six principles to guide the proper discharge of the judicial office: independence, impartiality, integrity, propriety, equality, and competence and diligence.
