Essential Content for Discharge Instructions in Pediatric Emergency Care: A Delphi Study

Conclusions Findings from this study provide a better understanding of what should be communicated to caregivers of children who present to the ED with a number of different illness presentations. Results from this study suggest that health care providers agree on the importance of providing information to caregivers regarding when to return to the ED with their child. Reaching consensus among all experts in this study provides insight into the difficulty of standardizing discharge communication in the absence of widely accepted guidelines.
Source: Pediatric Emergency Care - Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research