Our data indicated substantial variability in the way discharge functions are performed.
It was emphasized, especially by nurses, that there was better time to prepare and perform the discharge functions if the patient spent additional days at the hospital.
As such, the present study is unique since it applies a multiple-stakeholder perspective in examining hospital discharge functions, variability and the factors contributing to the variability, and perceived outcomes in discharge practice.
Our main aim was to identify hospital discharge functions, variability, and PSFs that may explain the variability and different outcomes in discharge practices by incorporating multiple-stakeholder perceptions (health-care providers, patients, next of kin).
This paper thus applies the first three steps of the FRAM identifying essential discharge functions, variability, and PSFs which may account for variability and different outcomes across discharge practices.
The purpose of the review "is to satisfy ministers that the ACMD... is discharging its function that the committee was set up to deliver and that it continues to represent value for money".
Even now his official duties have been discharged, he functions as protector, cheerleader and interpreter, clarifying some of Roky's more gnomic responses.
Because the Constitution empowered the government to collect taxes and borrow money, Hamilton argued, a central bank might usefully discharge such functions.
Set up to decide whether Seretse was a fit and proper person to discharge the functions of Chief, the inquiry found in his favour but nonetheless argued that South Africa's opposition to his marriage, and therefore his chieftainship, constituted enough reason to bar Khama from returning to his country.
