Limiting Re-Hospitalization Rates of Patients Successfully Discharged into The Community

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Limiting Re-Hospitalization Rates of Patients Successfully Discharged into The Community
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Limiting Re-Hospitalization Rates of Patients Successfully Discharged into The Community
Successful discharge into the community not only improves patients’ long-term
mental health care but also reduces the costs of treating mentally ill patients (Sisti, Segal, &
Emanuel, 2015). Similarly, discharging individuals with chronic health problems reduce costs
related to the management of the chronic diseases, particularly by use of activity tracking
devices (Chiauzzi, Rodarte, & DasMahapatra, 2015). Nevertheless, not all successfully
discharged patients improve their state of health after discharge into the community, thereby
requiring re-hospitalization (Kane, et al., 2015). Hence, successfully discharging a patient
into the community does not guarantee reduced re-hospitalization rate for all the patients
discharged.
Consequently, a statistical comparison between the hospitalized mental health patients
and individuals with chronic health problems can provide solutions to limit re-hospitalization
rate among the patients. The objective of this study shall focus on the statistical comparisons
between hospitalized mental health patients successfully discharged into the community and
individuals with chronic health problems, limited re-hospitalization rates. Other objectives
include improvement of effective successful discharge of patients and reduced re-
hospitalization rates among patients with either mental health problems or chronic illness.
The research question for this study is:
What are the statistics of hospitalized mental health patients, successfully discharging
into the community, compared to the individual with chronic health problems, limited re-
hospitalization rates within 30 days after discharge?
P = hospitalized mental health patients
I = successfully discharging into the community
C = individual with chronic health problems
O = limited re-hospitalization rates
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T = within 30 days after discharge
Supportive Research Questions
1. What constitutes a successful discharging into the community?
2. Should a successful discharging into the community be quick or slow to ensure its
effectiveness in improving a patient’s condition?
3. How are successfully discharged patients assisted to live in the community?
4. How many hours do health providers spend in closely monitoring a successfully
discharged patient?
5. What type of reception does a successfully discharged patient receive while living
in the community?
Conclusion
The early days, immediately after a successful discharging to the community, greatly
affects whether a patient becomes re-hospitalized or continues to stay in the community. The
various factors, such as how the caregivers treat a patient, how much attention they offer a
newly discharged patient, and how they conduct the process of successful discharge, greatly
affect whether a patient gets re-hospitalized within the first 30 days after discharge.
Conducting a statistical comparison of the number of re-hospitalizations between chronically
ill patients and patients with mental disorders helps in formulating solutions that could help in
reducing the number of re-hospitalizations right after successful discharge of patients.
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References
Chiauzzi, E., Rodarte, C., & DasMahapatra, P. (2015). Patient-centered activity monitoring in
the self-management of chronic health conditions. BMC medicine, 13(1), 77.
Kane, J. M., Robinson, D. G., Schooler, N. R., Mueser, K. T., Penn, D. L., Rosenheck, R. A., .
. . Marcy, P. (2015). Comprehensive versus usual community care for first-episode
psychosis: 2-year outcomes from the NIMH RAISE early treatment program.
American Journal of Psychiatry, 173(4), 362-372.
Sisti, D. A., Segal, A. G., & Emanuel, E. J. (2015). Improving long-term psychiatric care:
bring back the asylum. Jama, 313(3), 243-244.

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