Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . For some patients who undergo cardiac surgery, discharge without an opioid prescription for pain management is ...

Non-home discharge for cardiac surgery patients can be predicted preoperatively, which may shorten length of stay and reduce resource use, according to a study in the Journal of the American College ...

In many institutions, when a patient is scheduled for surgery, the patient is contacted before the procedure and given instructions as to how to prepare for the surgery. This may be done by staff from ...

Aligning Forces for Quality offers free, downloadable discharge planning tools for heart failure patients. The resources were crafted by Bay Area Hospital in Coos Bay, Ore. The heart failure discharge ...