This insight could be used to optimise the medication reconciliation process at hospital admission and discharge with implementation strategies tailored to the barriers and drivers found.
The Parliament is also responsible for discharging the implementation of previous budgets based on the annual report of the European Court of Auditors.
The 10% increase in reimbursement for the index hospital stay and the observed mean 8% decrease in mortality at discharge after network implementation translated into short term mean costs per saved life of €7727 (reference: 2005 German reimbursement level).
The number of RCF medication charts written or updated by a locum medical service within 24 h of discharge declined following implementation of the IRCMAC, from 66 (32.7%) to 25 (11.1%) (difference in percentages 21.6%, 95%CI13.5%to29.7%9.7%, p<0.001).
Hospital-wide mortality decreased from 15.50 to 13.74 deaths per 1, 000 discharges after RRT implementation (relative risk, 0.887; 95% confidence interval (CI), 0.817 to 0.963; P = 0.004).
Out-of-ICU cardiopulmonary-arrest codes significantly decreased from 3.28 to 1.62 codes per 1, 000 discharges after RRT implementation (RR, 0.493; 95% CI, 0.399 to 0.610; P < 0.001).
Hospital-wide mortality significantly decreased from 15.50 to 13.74 deaths per 1, 000 discharges after RRT implementation (RR, 0.887; 95% CI, 0.817 to 0.963; P = 0.004) (Table 2, Figure 1).
Considering outcomes across hospital services, mortality significantly decreased among patients admitted to the medicine service, from 16.91 to 10.28 deaths per 1, 000 medicine discharges after RRT implementation (RR, 0.608; 95% CI, 0.526 to 0.702; P < 0.001) (Table 2).
The implementation of discharge management software is presented with emphasis on its dedicated data structures and its underlying software specifications.
The purpose of this study was to determine if implementation of the discharge specialist role improves family perception of discharge readiness and determines whether the use of the role decreases the number of tasks needing completion on the day of discharge.
