Abstract
to perform the cross-cultural adaptation of the Readiness for Hospital Discharge Scale - (RHDS) Adult Form for use in Brazil. a methodological study was conducted in 2015, in Brazil's federal capital, following the eight stages scientifically established. analysis proved the maintenance of semantic, idiomatic, cultural, and conceptual equivalences and kept both the face and content validity of the original version. The judging committee and the pre-test participants declared they understood the RHDS items and answer scale. the instrument is culturally adapted for Brazil and can be used as one of the stages for planning hospital discharge.
Highlights
Hospital discharge is not a single event, characterized only by the termination of hospitalization
This procedure required the rewriting of questions related to these items for the consensual Portuguese version 3 (CPV-3), which was translated into English
This study introduces in the Brazilian context the possibility to evaluate and measure the construct readiness for hospital discharge through a standardized instrument
Summary
Hospital discharge is not a single event, characterized only by the termination of hospitalization. Researchers who dedicate themselves to understanding transitional care have assessed the effectiveness of a series of health interventions that can favor adequate information sharing among the healthcare team, patients and their family members engaged in the process of discharge and help reduce the number of readmissions[4,5,7,8,9]. Among these interventions, adequate preparation for hospital discharge has shown promising results, for instance, reducing medication error rates, avoidable hospital readmissions and costs, and increasing patients’ and their family members’ satisfaction with the process of hospital discharge[2,3,5,6,10]
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