UPC: 9783030091552 | Against‐medical‐advice Discharges from the Hospital : Optimizing Prevention and Management to Promote High Quality Patient-Centered Care (Paperback)

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This first-of-its-kind text provides a multidisciplinary overview of a significant problem in hospital-based healthcare: patients who decline inpatient medical care and leave the hospital against medical advice (AMA). Compared to standard hospital discharges AMA discharges are associated with worse health and health services outcomes. Patients discharged AMA have been found to have disproportionately higher rates of substance use psychiatric illness and report stigmatization and reduced access to care. By providing a far reaching examination of AMA discharges for a wide academic and clinical audience the book serves as a reference for clinical care research and the development of professional guidelines and institutional policy. The book provides both a broad overview of AMA discharges with chapters on the epidemiology ethical and legal aspects as well as social science perspectives. For clinicians in the disciplines of hospital medicine pediatrics emergency medicine nursing and psychiatry the book also provides a patient-centered analysis of the problem case-based discussions and a discussion of best practices. This comprehensive review of AMA discharges and health care quality will interest physicians and other health care professionals social workers hospital administrators quality and risk managers clinician-educators and health services researchers.