This has resulted in more patients arriving at A&E and more patients trapped in hospital as the necessary social care support needed to ensure their safe discharge is no longer there.
The "SMF ED safe discharge score was proposed as one such tool.
Using scores ≥ 6 and ≤ 1, the sensitivity was 100% and specificity 88.9% for safe discharge.
SMF ED safe discharge score correctly predicts admission and revisits in discharged patients.
This study aims to determine a correlation between clinical judgement and the Sundaram Medical Foundation (SMF) ED safe discharge score and its relevance to the safe discharge of ED patients.
Current guidelines [12] consider patients with cancer and PE as too high-risk for safe discharge from the ED.
It can be used as an adjunct tool to support clinical judgement for safe discharge of patients from ED.
To verify the effectiveness of home-based occupational therapy for safe discharge of in-patients with recent stroke.
It enables the safe discharge of those patients with benign disease and the planning of correct surgery for those with malignancy [34].
Mallick et al present a prospective study that evaluates the sensitivity of a clinical decision tool for the safe discharge of patients from the ED.
However, both the routes are applicable for rendering used waters as safe discharge to downstream river/stream waters of specific attributes.
