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Hospital discharge planning protocol for adult and elderly patients in the Amazon context: implementation study

Objective: Hospital discharge planning is recommended to improve health quality indicators, improve the individual's health status, reduce the length of hospital stay and readmission, in order to contribute to improving patient care, satisfaction and safety. Method: This is a study on the implementation of care improvement in accordance with the “Standards for Quality Improvement Reporting Excellence” guidelines. Considering that this research is an improvement implementation project, data will be collected from 65 patients before and after the implementation of the planned discharge protocol, totaling 130 patients. The project will be carried out in a clinical ward of an important philanthropic hospital in the State of Acre. It consists of three stages: Preparation and validation of the planned discharge protocol; Collection of assistance indicators; Protocol implementation. Data will be collected in medical records, by telephone and through a collection instrument. The indicators wil