The Effects of Discharge Planning Program for Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease on Reducing the Rate of Exacerbations and Readmissions in Lee Hospital, Lamphun Province
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Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Discharge planning program, Acute exacerbation, ReadmissionAbstract
A quasi-experimental design was employed with 30 COPD patients at Li Hospital, Lamphun Province, Thailand. The research instruments included a demographic data collection form and a discharge planning program developed based on Bertalanffy's General Systems Theory and the D-METHOD discharge planning framework. The content validity of the instruments was 0.97, and reliability was 0.85. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics (frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation) and Paired sample t –test.
The study findings revealed that after the experiment, the readmission rate within 28 days and the acute exacerbation rate of patients with COPD were significantly lower than before the intervention at the .05 level (p<0.001).
These finding suggest that nurses should apply discharge planning programs to further improve the care of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
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