Slide 28

Project RED: Module 3: The Re-Designed Discharge Process: Patient Admission and Care and Treatment Education: Slide 28

Provides a four-module training program to help hospitals implement Project RED.

Measuring the Process

  • Timeliness of RED activities
    • DA log data
  • Review Patient Care Plans after discharge
    • Percent with medication list
    • Percent with care needs listed
    • Percent with post-discharge services and contacts listed
    • Percent with follow-up appointments made
    • Percent with pending tests and results listed (or "none")

Notes:

Data collection can occur throughout the contact with the patient and conclude when follow-up activities are completed. If you have decided to use the metrics in this slide, conclude the measurement for each patient at this time.

Current as of August 2011
Internet Citation: Slide 28: Project RED: Module 3: The Re-Designed Discharge Process: Patient Admission and Care and Treatment Education: Slide 28. August 2011. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/professionals/systems/hospital/red/module3/slide28.html