3 Another study found lower error rates on discharge prescription items than was observed with general inpatient prescribing, due to a lower rate of medication omission, however these factors were not corrected for the number of items on each prescription.
Rewritten and discharge prescription items were significantly less likely to contain a PE than those written during patient stay, but were found to be at higher risk of potentially clinically relevant errors (especially on admission and discharge, where the risk was five and four times that of during stay, respectively).
The top three were discharge-related items.
No WOMAC data were collected at hospital discharge because several items of the WOMAC score are not valid during hospital stay, items like getting in and out of a car, shopping, getting in and out of a bath and doing domestic chores are not applicable in this phase.
Mean improvements at discharge for motor items ranged from 1.16 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.14, 1.19) to 2.69 (95% CI: 2.66, 2.71) points for sphincter control and locomotion, respectively.
Discharge letter includes items relating to quality, further plans and discharge letter time.
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).
Information relating to discharge comprises three items relating to whether the respondent received sufficient information before discharge, if the journey home was safe and if there was sufficient information on how to proceed if anything was to happen after discharge (Cronbach's alpha = .78).78
To study FoF after discharge, the one-item instrument and the short Falls Efficacy Scale-International (FES-I) were used.
