Abstract

Background: Smooth and patient-friendly admission and discharge processes attract a good number of patients and improve hospital turnover, ultimately bringing good profits to hospitals within optimum use of resources. Delay in the discharge process causes stagnation of patients, ultimately affecting new admissions. Discharge procedures for some critical patients are complicated and challenging. A lot of time is spent on discharge intimation, billing, Pharmacy Clearance, handover, etc. This study aims to assess the discharge process causes of delay in discharge and reflect on ways to improve the efficiency of the discharge process so that the discharge turnaround period can be reduced.
 Methodology: This will be a Retrospective Observational study conducted in AVBRH, Wardha. Data will be collected from 60 discharged patients admitted to IPD wards. Data will be collected using a structured questionnaire during personal interviews. Data will be analyzed using appropriate statistical tools.
 Expected Results: Some administrative and management gaps and handover gaps are expected to be found, which can be corrected to increase the efficiency of the discharge process.
 Conclusion: This Will be drawn as per the findings of study.

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