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Perspectives on the injured child's hospital discharge process and opportunities for improvement: a scoping review protocol.
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introductionUnintentional injury is a leading cause of hospitalisation and disability in children globally. Families may experience a second crisis of injury after the child's discharge from the hospital, with the traumatic nature of injuries affecting physical and psychosocial recovery. This scoping review aims to summarise the literature on the perspectives of injured children's caregivers and service providers on the hospital discharge process, the challenges and opportunities to improve discharge planning evident from qualitative and interventional studies, and the investigation of inequities in these studies using the Conceptual Framework of Access to healthcare proposed by Levesque METHODS AND ANALYSIS: A scoping review will be conducted involving a search across four databases: CINAHL Plus, Cochrane Library, Embase and Ovid MEDLINE. Empirical literature published in English between 2000 and 2025 will be eligible for inclusion. Included studies will report caregiver or service provider perspectives on current hospital discharge practice for injured children under 18 years old, investigated a priori as a study objective or a posteriori as a finding, or will report the design, implementation or evaluation of interventions intended to improve hospital discharge for injured children. Levesque ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION: The scoping review only uses data in the public domain and does not require ethics approval.
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