The development of a discharge planning index for use in a pediatric acute burn unit.
The purpose of this study was to develop a discharge planning index for use in a pediatric acute burn unit. The study sample consisted of 59 health professionals from a pediatric burn hospital who had worked at least one year with children with acute burns and their families in discharge planning. With the use of the Delphi technique, a three-round survey was conducted. A Pediatric Acute Burn Discharge Planning Index that consists of 75 items was developed on the basis of the items that received a mean score of 5.0 or greater in the third survey. The data were further analyzed with Spearman's rank correlation coefficient to compare the top 23 rank-ordered items rated by the nursing department with those rated by the other departments surveyed. The rank-order correlation showed a positive correlation between the nursing department's and other departments' responses. These results indicate that all health team members agree on the importance of assessing the items listed on the derived index before discharging a pediatric patient with acute burns.
Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children, Burn Unit, Galveston, TX.
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D000043:Abstracting and Indexing; D002053:Burn Units; D002056:Burns / Q000451:nursing*; D002648:Child; D003697:Delphi Technique; D005568:Forms and Records Control; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand / Q000145:classification; D006776:Hospitals, Pediatric / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006782:Hospitals, Special / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units; D010348:Patient Care Team; D010351:Patient Discharge