The relationship between hospital discharge readiness and transition outcomes in total hip or knee arthroplasty patients

Joint Event on International Conference on Advanced Nursing & Neonatal Nursing

September 10-11, 2019 | Prague, Czech Republic

Jingying Xie

West China Hospital, Sichuan University, China

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: J Nurs Care

Abstract :

Objective: The main objective of this study was to investigate the hospital discharge readiness and transition outcomes in total hip/knee arthroplasty patients, and to analyze the relationship between the two.

Methods: Use the convenience sampling method to select patients with total hip arthroplasty (THA) or total knee arthroplasty (TKA) from January 2018 to July 2018 in a tertiary hospital in Sichuan Province. Use general information of patients, discharge preparation scale (RHDS) and Care Transition Measure (CTM- 15) to investigate patients’hospital discharge readiness (two-four hours before discharge) and transition outcomes (30 days after discharge).

Results: the results indicated that total of 352 patients were enrolled in this investigation, with an average age of (59.56±12.69) years old. The average RHDS score was (177.08±19.41), which was at a moderate level. The average quality of transition outcomes was (37.37±7.50), which was at a medium level. The RHDS score was positively correlated with the transition outcomes and the RHDS score could explain 51.3% of the variation of transition outcomes.

Conclusion: The patient’s hospital discharge readiness is closely related to the transition outcomes and has a predictive effect on the transition outcome. It suggests that clinical medical staff should pay attention to the patient’s hospital discharge readiness and improve the transition quality of patients after discharge so as to promote the improvement of patients’quality of life after discharge.