title: [Continuity of care: the concordance of discharge planning between public and private hospitals and district].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  A good post hospital discharge planning facilitates the discharge, improves patients' health conditions and decreases the social costs.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To assess the agreement of the discharge settings suggested by the public or private hospitals and by the district.
  
  
  METHODS
  A random sample of 318 over 1152 discharge reports send in 2013 by Hospitals to the District service of ASLTO2 - Piedmont Region was selected.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The agreement for discharge planning between public hospitals and District was 57.4% (50% for private hospitals), with differences according to the discharge setting: 75.3% for Home care, 61.3% for Nursing Homes, 44.4% long term rehabilitation, 42.9% for the Hospice and only 7.4% for specialized Nursing Homes. Reasons for lack of agreement were an inappropriate assessment of patients or family resources and of discharge settings.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The District is in a better position for assessing the range services to be offered the to patients, their living and family conditions and thus, to identify the most suitable post discharge settings.
authors.forename: Franco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Cirio
mesh_terms: D003266:Continuity of Patient Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006707:Homes for the Aged / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006738:Hospices / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006767:Hospitals, District / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D016304:Hospitals, Private / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006779:Hospitals, Public / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy / Q000453:epidemiology; D008134:Long-Term Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D020380:Needs Assessment / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D024802:Nurse's Role; D009735:Nursing Homes / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D010351:Patient Discharge / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D017060:Patient Satisfaction