This implementation guide can assist patient and families in the use of the TMF Hospital Admission and Discharge guides to help improve patient safety and increase patient satisfaction.

This guide has a checklist of important items to discuss with your health care team when being discharged from the hospital.

This guide, developed by Better Outcomes for Older Adults through Safe Transitions (Project BOOST) provides resources to optimize the hospital discharge process and mitigate and prevent known complications and errors that occur during care transitions.

Using this easy-to-read guide from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality with patients during discharge can help them care for themselves when they leave the hospital to track their medication schedules, upcoming medical appointments, and important phone numbers.

Researchers at the Boston University Medical Center developed and tested a set of activities and materials for improving the hospital discharge process, which they called the Re-Engineered Discharge (RED). Research showed that the RED was effective at reducing readmissions and post-discharge emergency visits. RED consists of a set of 12 mutually reinforcing actions; outlined in this toolkit.

This diagnostic tool from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, helps hospitals perform an in-depth review of the last five rehospitalizations to identify opportunities for improvement. This includes conducting chart reviews as well as interviews with recently readmitted patients and their family members.

This How-to Guide from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement is designed to support hospital-based teams and their community partners in creating and implementing improved care processes to ensure that patients who have been discharged from the hospital have an ideal transition to the next setting of care (such as a primary care practice, home care or a skilled nursing facility).

This easy-to-use checklist from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is for patients and their caregivers preparing to leave a hospital, nursing home or other care setting.

Physicians and nurses at hospitals can use this document to help ensure patients being discharged from the hospital are appropriately led through the discharge process. Hospital staff can also use this survey to help document their own internal patient discharge processes to ensure all of the proper steps were followed.

Use this tool to identify top 10 patients who are most at risk for an adverse outcome that could result in a hospitalization.

This package includes a postcard in both English and Spanish to give to patients after hospitalization to schedule future appointments. The package also includes instructions for providers to effectively use the postcard.

Physicians and nurses at hospitals can use this document to help ensure patients being discharged from the hospital are appropriately led through the discharge process. Hospital staff can also use this survey to help document their own internal patient discharge processes to ensure all of the proper steps were followed.