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Discharge lounges and patient/system outcomes

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“The development of the discharge lounge has demonstrated significant improvement in five areas:
• Higher patient satisfaction scores
• Increased patient discharges by 2:00 p.m. daily
• Reduced boarding time, or the time patients spend in the ED before being transferred to another unit
• Decreased frequency of 30-day readmissions
• Enhanced identification and correction of potential safety issues”

(Rhodes)

RHODES, J. R., et al (2020). Discharge lounges for optimal outcomes: A quality improvement project. Nursing, 50(12), 65–68.
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Including pictographs in discharge instructions

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Noteworthy article

Winokur EJ, Rutledge DN, McGowan JJ. A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words: Pictographs to Improve Understanding of Discharge Instructions. J Emerg Nurs. 2019 Sep;45(5):531-537. doi: 10.1016/j.jen.2019.01.007. Epub 2019 Mar 8. PMID: 30853122.

Here’s how to access the full collection of twelve articles on including pictographs/images/pictures in discharge instructions.

a. Go to the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library homepage (http://health.library.emory.edu)

b. Click on PubMed.
c. Then paste one the three following links into your browser:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi/1HMKnKhQm_d5i/collections/58936084/public/
d. The references will appear in PubMed. Click on a reference and you will see a Find it at Emory on the right side of the page which will provide links to full text within Emory University’s licensed resources. Emory Healthcare staff may send citations of needed articles they are unable to access to Ask a Librarian; a library staff person will request the article(s) from an outside library and email them to the EHC staff person upon arrival.

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