scholarly journals Acute gastric perforation after leaving against medical advice: A case presentation

2021 ◽  
pp. 100598
Author(s):  
David Weinstein ◽  
Vicki Moran ◽  
John Culhane
Keyword(s):  
Gastric Perforation ◽  
Medical Advice ◽  
Against Medical Advice ◽  
Case Presentation ◽  
Leaving Against Medical Advice

Factors Affecting Discharges against Medical Advice in an Emergency Department of a Tertiary Care Center

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 31-35
Author(s):  
Trishna Shrestha ◽  
Sneha Pradhananga ◽  
Kabita Hada Batajoo ◽  
Manjita Bajracharya
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Emergency Department ◽  
Health Care Costs ◽  
Medical Advice ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Against Medical Advice ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Tertiary Center ◽  
Care Costs ◽  
Leaving Against Medical Advice

Introduction: Patients leaving against the advice of the treating team before being certified as fit is a major concern and challenge for the treating professionals as it possesses adverse medical outcomes. This study hence aimed at identifying the prevalence and major factors affecting such discharges so that advocacy can be done to help prevent it. Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted at emergency department of a tertiary center in Lalitpur from 15th May 2019 to 15th August 2019. All the patients visiting the emergency department were included in the study and a non-probability purposive sampling method was used excluding the patients who denied giving reasons for them leaving against medical advice. Data was collected using pre-structured questionnaire and analyzed using SPSS-v21 software. Results: A hundred and fifteen patients (4.08%) left against medical advice out of 2812 patients who presented to emergency department. There were 63 male patients (54.8%), 75 patients of the total patients in the age group of 15-44 years (65.2%) and those living within a distance of 1km from the hospital (53%). The most common reason for the patients leaving against medical advice was found to be due to financial constraint (38.3%) followed by preference to other hospitals (16.5%). Conclusion: Patients leaving against medical advice possesses a small percentage of actual hospital admissions but is still a major health concern as it drastically increases the morbidity, re-admission rates and total health-care costs. Hence, understanding the general characteristics and predictors of such discharges is of utmost importance to help improve the patient outcome and reduce the health-care costs.  

scholarly journals Why Do Patients Leave against Medical Advice? Reasons, Consequences, Prevention, and Interventions

Healthcare ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 111
Author(s):  
Asseel Albayati ◽  
Steven Douedi ◽  
Abbas Alshami ◽  
Mohammad A. Hossain ◽  
Shuvendu Sen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hospital Admissions ◽  
Medical Advice ◽  
Preventive Strategies ◽  
Against Medical Advice ◽  
Cause Analysis ◽  
Persistent Problem ◽  
Root Cause ◽  
Discharge Against Medical Advice ◽  
Leaving Against Medical Advice

Background: A patient decides to leave the hospital against medical advice. Is this an erratic eccentric behavior of the patient, or a gap in the quality of care provided by the hospital? With a significant and increasing prevalence of up to 1–2% of all hospital admissions, leaving against medical advice affects both the patient and the healthcare provider. We hereby explore this persistent problem in the healthcare system. We searched Medline and PubMed within the last 10 years, using the keywords “discharge against medical advice,” “DAMA,” “leave against medical advice,” and “AMA.” We retrospectively reviewed 49 articles in our project. Ishikawa fishbone root cause analysis (RCA) was employed to explore reasons for leaving against medical advice (AMA). This report presents the results of the RCA and highlights the consequences of discharge against medical advice (DAMA). In addition, the article explores preventive strategies, as well as interventions to ameliorate leaving AMA.

Leaving against medical advice: Pediatric surgical perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 18
Author(s):  
Anand Pandey ◽  
Piyush Kumar ◽  
Anurag Srivastava ◽  
Archika Gupta ◽  
Jiledar Rawat ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Advice ◽  
Against Medical Advice ◽  
Leaving Against Medical Advice

Leaving Against Medical Advice After Emergency General Surgery: Avoiding a Two-Hit Effect

2021 ◽  
Vol 257 ◽  
pp. 278-284
Author(s):  
Michael Edward Villarreal ◽  
Kathryn Schubauer ◽  
Anghela Zarella Paredes ◽  
Heena Patel Santry ◽  
Robert Tamer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
General Surgery ◽  
Medical Advice ◽  
Emergency General Surgery ◽  
Against Medical Advice ◽  
Leaving Against Medical Advice
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