Table 1 Description of hospital and implementation characteristics of hospitals implementing PODS (n = 21 hospitals)
ID | Hospital characteristics | Implementation characteristics | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Â | Type | Size | Target population | Main Responsible Provider | When is it done |
1 | A | A | Mental health inpatients | Social work or nurse | Week of discharge |
2 | A | A | all inpatients | Physician | week of discharge |
3 | A | A | all medicine acute and sub-acute | Physician | week of discharge |
4 | A | A | all inpatients | Multidisciplinary | week of discharge |
5 | A | A | medicine, chronic disease, oncology, surgery | Nurse | day before discharge |
6 | A | A | Medicine - focus on elderly | Team | day of discharge |
7 | A | C | all surgery | Nurse | over whole stay |
8 | A | C | mental health ED and inpatient followed by rehab | nurse | week of discharge |
9 | A | C | all inpatients and ED (QBPs at first) | nurse | day before discharge |
10 | A | C | Surgery | nurse | day before discharge |
11 | A | S | medicine, surgery, and rehab | nurse | day before discharge |
12 | A | S | medicine, surgery, and ED | nurse | week of discharge |
13 | A | S | all inpatient (target CHF, COPD, and Stroke at first) | nurse | week of discharge |
14 | A | S | all inpatients and ED | nurse | day before discharge |
15 | A | S | all inpatients | nurse | week of discharge |
16 | A | S | all geriatric inpatients | nurse | week of discharge |
17 | A | S | medicine, surgery, and obstetrics | nurse | day before discharge |
18 | A | S | medicine, surgery, obstetrics | nurse | week of discharge |
19 | R | A | all inpatients (rehab includes stroke) | social work or nurse | over whole stay |
20 | R | A | inpatient Stroke | nurse | over whole stay |
21 | R | C | Rehab including stroke | nurse | Week of discharge |