Identifying the factors influencing the re-admission of hospitalized patients in the internal wards of educational hospitals: a qualitative study

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VALI LEILA; Godarzi Reza; Azari Golnaz; GHORBANI NIA RAHIL

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Journal: Tehran University Medical Journal Year:2020 | Volume:78 | Issue:7 Page(s): 429-433

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Identifying the factors influencing the re-admission of hospitalized patients in the internal wards of educational hospitals: a qualitative study

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VALI LEILA | Godarzi Reza | Azari Golnaz | GHORBANI NIA RAHIL | Issue Writer Certificate

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Background: Currently many hospitals around the country face increasing demands of their patients and readmission. The rate of readmission is a useful indicator for determining the performance of healthcare system and it shows the quality of services in the medical institutions. Readmissions have high economic, social and financial impact and studying the related factors seems to be high priority for healthcare systems. Methods: This qualitative study performed by phenomenological method in three educational hospitals in Kerman from April to September of 2017. Data collection was performed through semi-structured interviews using targeted sampling among all patients who were hospitalized at internal medicine wards, nurses who were working in those wards, and in charge physicians. In total twenty patients, fifteen nurses, and five physicians were selected for interviews. The including criteria were for patients, the history of hospitalization at least once, during one month after the initial hospitalization, and for service providers, familiarity with the subject, work experience in the relevant department of at least three years for nurses and five years for physicians. A seven-step clustering method was used to analyze the data. Results: The analysis of the interviews led to the identification of three main themes and 11 sub-themes. The main themes included patients' characteristics, manpower and clinical factors, hospital, and environmental factors. Some of the sub-codes included economic and living conditions, marriage status, insurance coverage, patients' beliefs and expectations, the presence or absence of underlying disease, education, lifestyle habits, dietary beliefs of hospitalized patients, lack of trust in medical staff, communication and cultural barriers, ignorance of service providers in treatment, lack of facilities, lack of motivation in medical staff, stressors and finally lack of hospital equipment. Conclusion: By providing practical solutions and implementing them through the healthcare system of our country, the necessary baseline must be designed to reduce the rate of re-hospitalization in our communities.

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VALI, LEILA, Godarzi, Reza, Azari, Golnaz, & GHORBANI NIA, RAHIL. (2020). Identifying the factors influencing the re-admission of hospitalized patients in the internal wards of educational hospitals: a qualitative study. TEHRAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL JOURNAL (TUMJ), 78(7 ), 429-433. SID. https://sid.ir/paper/379675/en

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VALI LEILA, Godarzi Reza, Azari Golnaz, GHORBANI NIA RAHIL. Identifying the factors influencing the re-admission of hospitalized patients in the internal wards of educational hospitals: a qualitative study. TEHRAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL JOURNAL (TUMJ)[Internet]. 2020;78(7 ):429-433. Available from: https://sid.ir/paper/379675/en

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LEILA VALI, Reza Godarzi, Golnaz Azari, and RAHIL GHORBANI NIA, “Identifying the factors influencing the re-admission of hospitalized patients in the internal wards of educational hospitals: a qualitative study,” TEHRAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL JOURNAL (TUMJ), vol. 78, no. 7 , pp. 429–433, 2020, [Online]. Available: https://sid.ir/paper/379675/en

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