Jingying Xie
West China Hospital, Sichuan University, China
Posters & Accepted Abstracts: J Nurs Care
Objective: The main objective of this study was to investigate the hospital discharge readiness and transition
outcomes in total hip/knee arthroplasty patients, and to analyze the relationship between the two.
Methods: Use the convenience sampling method to select patients with total hip arthroplasty (THA) or total
knee arthroplasty (TKA) from January 2018 to July 2018 in a tertiary hospital in Sichuan Province. Use
general information of patients, discharge preparation scale (RHDS) and Care Transition Measure (CTM-
15) to investigate patients’hospital discharge readiness (two-four hours before discharge) and transition
outcomes (30 days after discharge).
Results: the results indicated that total of 352 patients were enrolled in this investigation, with an average
age of (59.56±12.69) years old. The average RHDS score was (177.08±19.41), which was at a moderate
level. The average quality of transition outcomes was (37.37±7.50), which was at a medium level. The RHDS
score was positively correlated with the transition outcomes and the RHDS score could explain 51.3% of the
variation of transition outcomes.
Conclusion: The patient’s hospital discharge readiness is closely related to the transition outcomes and has a
predictive effect on the transition outcome. It suggests that clinical medical staff should pay attention to the
patient’s hospital discharge readiness and improve the transition quality of patients after discharge so as to
promote the improvement of patients’quality of life after discharge.
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