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  • Health Services Research
  • Evidence-Based Medicine
  • Patient Care Management

Background:

  • Discharge planning aims to reduce hospital delays, improve post-discharge service coordination, and lower readmission rates.
  • This systematic review is the fifth update, focusing on the effectiveness of individualized patient discharge planning.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the effectiveness of individualized discharge planning for hospital inpatients.
  • To synthesize evidence from randomized controlled trials comparing tailored discharge plans with routine care.

Main Methods:

  • Searched multiple databases (CENTRAL, MEDLINE, Embase) and trial registers up to April 2021.
  • Included 33 randomized trials involving 12,242 participants, focusing on medical patients, surgical patients, and mixed conditions.
  • Utilized meta-analysis for dichotomous and continuous data, grouping studies by patient condition.

Main Results:

  • Individualized discharge planning showed a moderate-certainty evidence of a small reduction in initial hospital length of stay (MD -0.73 days) for medical patients.
  • A moderate-certainty evidence indicated a relative reduction in hospital readmissions within three months (RR 0.89) for medical patients.
  • Evidence on health status, functional status, and psychological health was of low to moderate certainty, with uncertain impact on patient satisfaction and healthcare costs.

Conclusions:

  • Tailored discharge plans likely reduce hospital length of stay and readmissions for older medical patients.
  • Patient satisfaction may be slightly increased, but the impact on health status and healthcare resource utilization is uncertain.
  • Further research is needed to clarify the cost-effectiveness and broader health impacts of structured discharge planning.