ArticleGlobal journal of health science2013
Discharge against medical advice: a case study in a public teaching hospital in Tehran, Iran in 2012.
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- Incidence of patients leaving against medical advice in government-subsidized hospitals: a descriptive retrospective study.The Pan African medical journal · 2022Article
- Characteristics of trauma patients that leave against medical advice: An eight-year survey analysis using the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, 2009-2016.Journal of clinical orthopaedics and trauma · 2021Article
- Effects of Iranian healthcare transformation plan on discharge against medical advice rate and related factors in 2012 and 2016.BMJ open · 2019Article
- Leaving Against Medical Advice From In-patients Departments Rate, Reasons and Predicting Risk Factors for Re-visiting Hospital Retrospective Cohort From a Tertiary Care Hospital.International journal of health policy and management · 2019Article
- Discharge against Medical Advice (DAMA) from an Emergency Department of a Tertiary Care Hospital in Saudi Arabia.Emergency medicine international · 2019Article
- Discharge against medical advice (DAMA): Causes and predictors.Electronic physician · 2017Article
- Factors affecting the overcrowding in outpatient healthcare.Journal of education and health promotion · 2017Article
- Hospitalized Pregnant Women Who Leave Against Medical Advice: Attributes and Reasons.Maternal and child health journal · 2016Article
- Rate and Causes of Discharge against Medical Advice in Iranian Hospitals: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Iranian journal of public health · 2015Review
- Studying the rate and causes of discharge against medical advice in hospitals affiliated to mazandaran university of medical sciences.Materia socio-medica · 2014Article
- Prevalence of discharge against medical advice and its associated demographic predictors among pediatric patients: A cross-sectional study of Saudi Arabia.International journal of critical illness and injury scienceArticle
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Abstract
Discharging against medical advice is to leave the hospital despite the advice of the doctor, which can result in complications and readmissions. This study aimed to examine the prevalence of patients' discharge against medical advice (DAMA) and their reasons in a public teaching hospital in Tehran, Iran in 2012. This was an applied and cross-sectional study in which all patients (2601 patients) who had been discharged against medical advice from the studied hospital in 2012 were studied. Required data were collected using a data collection form. Collected data were analyzed using SPSS 18.0 and descriptive and analytical tests including Frequencies and Fisher's Exact Test. The most and least common reasons for DAMA were, respectively, feeling complete recovery by patients (45.4%) and financial problems (1.3%). The results showed that there were significant differences between DAMA prevalence and patients' sex and age (P<0.001). The prevalence of DAMA in the studied hospital was high and according to the existence of social work units in every hospital, it is recommended that patients' consultation with the hospital social workers should be considered as an obligatory stage of the discharge against medical advice process in order to inform patients about its complications and adverse consequences.
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