Slide 7
Project RED: Module 3: The Re-Designed Discharge Process: Patient Admission and Care and Treatment Education: Slide 7
Provides a four-module training program to help hospitals implement Project RED.
RED Checklist: Discharge and Followup
11 mutually reinforcing components:
- Medication reconciliation
- Reconcile discharge plan with national guidelines
- Follow-up appointments
- Outstanding tests
- Post-discharge services
- Written discharge plan
- What to do if problem arises
- Patient education
- Assess patient understanding
- Discharge summary sent to PCP
- Telephone reinforcement
Notes:
The 11 components of RED overlap throughout the hospital stay. The ones highlighted on this slide focus on the end of the acute-care stay:
- Scheduling appointments.
- Reviewing pending tests.
- Writing the final discharge plan.
- Teaching the patient.
- Assessing patient understanding.
- Performing post-discharge activities related to contacting the PCP and patient.
Page last reviewed August 2011
Internet Citation: Slide 7: Project RED: Module 3: The Re-Designed Discharge Process: Patient Admission and Care and Treatment Education: Slide 7.
August 2011. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://archive.ahrq.gov/professionals/systems/hospital/red/module3/slide7.html
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