ReviewJAMA pediatrics2014
A framework of pediatric hospital discharge care informed by legislation, research, and practice.
Review in JAMA pediatrics, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 44 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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44 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Essential elements nurses have to address to promote a safe discharge in paediatrics: A systematic review and narrative synthesis.Nursing open · 2024Pooled it
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- Parental Management of Discharge Instructions: A Systematic Review.Pediatrics · 2017Pooled it
- Video Education Intervention in the Emergency Department.The western journal of emergency medicine · 2022Trial
- Video discharge instructions for pediatric gastroenteritis in an emergency department: a randomized, controlled trial.European journal of pediatrics · 2021Trial
- Caregiver Perspectives on Implementation of Discharge Plans for Children With Medical Complexity.Hospital pediatrics · 2026Article
- Perspectives on the injured child's hospital discharge process and opportunities for improvement: a scoping review protocol.BMJ open · 2026Article
- Supporting discharge preparation for children with medical complexity: a scoping review.BMC nursing · 2025Article
- Health-illness transition processes in children with complex chronic conditions and their parents: a scoping review.BMC pediatrics · 2024Article
- Adherence with post-hospitalization follow-up after pediatric critical illness due to respiratory failure.BMC pediatrics · 2024Article
- Pediatrician perspectives on barriers and facilitators to discharge instruction comprehension and adherence for parents of children with medical complexity.Journal of hospital medicine · 2024Article
- Pediatric Resident Communication of Hospital Discharge Instructions.Health literacy research and practice · 2023Article
- Child Opportunity Index and Hospital Utilization in Children With Traumatic Brain Injury Admitted to the PICU.Critical care explorations · 2023Article
- Pharmacist-Led Discharge Transitions of Care Interventions for Pediatric Patients: A Narrative Review.The journal of pediatric pharmacology and therapeutics : JPPT : the official journal of PPAG · 2023Article
- One Size Does Not Fit All: Discharge Teaching and Child Challenging Behaviors.Western journal of nursing research · 2022Article
- Risk factors for hospital readmission among infants with prolonged neonatal intensive care stays.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2022Article
- NICU discharge preparation and transition planning: guidelines and recommendations.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2022Review
- Multi-Disciplinary Discharge Coordination Team to Overcome Discharge Barriers and Address the Risk of Delayed Discharges.Risk management and healthcare policy · 2022Article
- Challenges in pediatric post-sepsis care in resource limited settings: a narrative review.Translational pediatrics · 2021Review
- Disparity in Nurse Discharge Communication for Hospitalized Families Based on English Proficiency.Hospital pediatrics · 2021Article
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Abstract
To our knowledge, no widely used pediatric standards for hospital discharge care exist, despite nearly 10 000 pediatric discharges per day in the United States. This lack of standards undermines the quality of pediatric hospital discharge, hinders quality-improvement efforts, and adversely affects the health and well-being of children and their families after they leave the hospital. In this article, we first review guidance regarding the discharge process for adult patients, including federal law within the Social Security Act that outlines standards for hospital discharge; a variety of toolkits that aim to improve discharge care; and the research evidence that supports the discharge process. We then outline a framework within which to organize the diverse activities that constitute discharge care to be executed throughout the hospitalization of a child from admission to the actual discharge. In the framework, we describe processes to (1) initiate pediatric discharge care, (2) develop discharge care plans, (3) monitor discharge progress, and (4) finalize discharge. We contextualize these processes with a clinical case of a child undergoing hospital discharge. Use of this narrative review will help pediatric health care professionals (eg, nurses, social workers, and physicians) move forward to better understand what works and what does not during hospital discharge for children, while steadily improving their quality of care and health outcomes.
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