Coming Home from Hospital

Follow the links below to find information about coming home from hospital and convalescing after serious illness or injury.

Reviewed August 2011

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Title:   Convalescence
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Convalescence is the period in which the body recovers from a serious illness, injury or surgery. Changes to your lifestyle may be needed to make sure the body has enough time and rest to allow a complete recovery.
Date:   Aug 2011
Title:   Media release. Extra support for older Australians after hospital stays
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   More than 30,000 older Australians each year will receive customised care and support to return to everyday life after a spell in hospital, Minister for Mental Health and Ageing Mark Butler said today, announcing expansion of the Transition Care Program by 651 places - bringing the total number of transition care places to 4,000.
Date:   Jun 2011
Title:   Older people leaving hospital: a statistical overview of the Transition Care Program in 2008-09
Publisher:   Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Description:   Older people leaving hospital: a statistical overview of the Transition Care Program in 2008-09 presents key statistics on the characteristics and services provided to older people who are eligible for residential aged care directly after discharge from hospital.
Date:   Jun 2011
Title:   From hospital to home - Improving care outcomes for older people, a National Action Plan for improving the care of older people across the acute-aged care continuum 2004 - 2008
Publisher:   Commonwealth Government Department of Health and Ageing,
Description:   In 2004 the Care of Older Australians Working Group (COAWG), predecessor to the HCOASC, developed a National Action Plan for improving the care of older people across the acute-aged care continuum 2004 - 2008, titled "From Hospital to home - Improving care outcomes for older people".
Date:   Mar 2011
Title:   Indigenous identification in hospital separations data: quality report
Publisher:   Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Description:   This report presents results of an audit of the quality of Indigenous identification in hospital separations data and makes recommendations regarding the use of Indigenous status information. The report is a useful resource for health information managers and researchers.
Date:   Feb 2010
Title:   Your medicines list
Publisher:   Multicultural Health Communication Service
Description:   Medicines list for people leaving hospital to help them understand what their medication is for and how to take it. Includes medicine safety tips.
Date:   Sep 2009
Title:   Prescribing issues
Publisher:   CareSearch
Description:   GPs may encounter several common prescribing issues when managing palliative care patients in the community.
Date:   May 2009
Title:   Discharge planning from hospital to home
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Discharge planning is the development of an individualised discharge plan for the patient prior to leaving hospital, with the aim of containing costs and improving patient outcomes. Discharge planning should ensure that patients are discharged from hosp...
Date:   Mar 2009
Title:   Nutritional supplementation for older people after hip fracture
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Older people with hip fractures are often malnourished at the time of their fracture and many have poor food intake while in hospital. Malnutrition may hinder recovery after hip fracture. We reviewed the effects of nutritional interventions in older peo...
Date:   Mar 2009
Title:   ARPANSA - Recommendations for the discharge of patients undergoing treatment with radioactive substances
Publisher:   Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA)
Description:   These Recommendations are designed to provide guidance on the conditions that should be met for the discharge from a hospital or clinic of patients who are undergoing treatment with radioactive substances.
Date:   Feb 2009
Title:   Pathways home
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   Pathways Home is a program that the Australian Government funds under the 2003-08 Australian Health Care Agreements.
Date:   Feb 2008
Title:   Early discharge with home support of gavage feeding for stable preterm infants who have not established full oral feeds
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   There is not enough strong evidence regarding the effects of early home discharge for preterm babies who are stable but still need gavage (tube) feeds. Babies born preterm (before 37 weeks) are not usually discharged from hospital until they are able to...
Date:   Aug 2007
Title:   Strategies for removing catheters used in the short term to drain urine from the bladder in hospitalised patients
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Patients in hospital with a brief severe illness or following surgery may have a tube placed into the passage from the bladder (an in-dwelling urethral catheter). Potential complications are infection, tissue damage and patient discomfort. This review i...
Date:   Feb 2007
Title:   Early developmental intervention programs post hospital discharge to prevent motor and cognitive impairments in preterm infants
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Preterm infants (babies born before 37 weeks) are at risk of development problems, including problems with cognitive and motor development. Cognitive development refers to thinking and learning ability and motor development refers to the way infants mov...
Date:   Jan 2007
Title:   Effectiveness of intermediate care in nursing-led in-patient units
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Patients who suffer an acute illness and are admitted to hospital are often admitted into an acute care ward with many services provided. But while recovering from the illness they may not need those intense services and will need to prepare to go home....
Date:   Jan 2007
Title:   Getting medicines right after a stay in hospital
Publisher:   National Prescribing Service
Description:   Learn some tips about preventing medicine mishaps after you leave hospital, including using a Medicines List, knowing the changes that have been made to your prescriptions, and informing your GP.
Date:   Dec 2006
Title:   Hospital discharge summaries (Comments for consumers)
Publisher:   Australian Prescriber
Description:   When patients go home after a stay in hospital, there should be a discharge summary. This tells the patient's doctor what treatment the hospital has given. It should include a list of the medicines the patient needs to continue.
Date:   Jun 2006
Title:   Discharge medication (Editorial)
Publisher:   Australian Prescriber
Description:   There are many barriers to the transfer of a patient's medication history between the hospital and the community. It is just as important to have good information on discharge as it is to have an accurate medication history when the patient is admitted.
Date:   Jun 2006
Title:   Written and verbal information, compared to verbal information only, for people being discharged from hospital
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   When children are discharged from hospital, parents' understanding of how to continue care at home is better if they receive both written and verbal information. When people are discharged from hospital, they and/or their carers are given information o...
Date:   Sep 2005
Title:   Intense monitoring of patients with chronic heart failure following discharge from hospital - more studies needed.
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Patients with chronic heart failure (CHF) are often admitted to hospital as an emergency. The authors looked at 16 clinical trials that tested different ways of organising the care of CHF patients after they leave hospital. Only one of these trials was ...
Date:   Feb 2005

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