Caseworker-assigned discharge plans to prevent hospital readmission for acute exacerbations in children with chronic respiratory illness.

CONCLUSIONS: Current evidence suggests that individual caseworker-assigned discharge plans, as compared to non-caseworker-assigned plans, may be beneficial in preventing hospital readmissions for acute exacerbations in children with asthma. There was no clear indication that the intervention reduces emergency department and general practitioner attendances for asthma, and there is an absence of data for children with other chronic respiratory conditions. Given the potential benefit and cost savings to the healthcare sector and families if hospitalisations and outpatient attendances can be reduced, there is a need for further randomised controlled trials encompassing different chronic respiratory illnesses, ethnicity, socio-economic settings, and cost-effectiveness, as well as defining the essential components of a complex intervention. PMID: 30387126 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30387126?dopt=Abstract

Source: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - November 2, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: Hall KK, Petsky HL, Chang AB, O'Grady KF Tags: Cochrane Database Syst Rev Source Type: research