Against‐Medical‐Advice Discharges from the Hospital Optimizing Prevention and Management to Promote High Quality, Patient-Centered Care /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Alfandre, David (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: General practice (Medicine).; Cardiology.; Surgery.; Pediatrics.; General Practice / Family Medicine.

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...

Table of Contents:

• Part I
• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. Discharges Against Medical Advice: Prevalence, Predictors, and Populations
• Chapter 3. Legal Considerations of Patient Refusals of Treatment Against Medical Advice
• Chapter 4. Ethical Considerations in Against Medical Advice Discharges: Values Conflicts over Patient Autonomy and Best Interests
• Chapter 5. Reframing the Phenomenon of Discharges Against Medical Advice: A Sociologist's Perspective
• Chapter 6. Social Justice and the Ethics of Care: A Nursing Perspective
• Part II
• Chapter 7. Bedside Management of Discharges Against Medical Advice
• Chapter 8. Against Medical Advice Discharges from the Emergency Department
• Chapter 9. To Thy Own Self Be True: Contributions from Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry
• Chapter 10. Against Medical Advice Discharges: Pediatric Considerations
• Chapter 11. Against Medical Advice Discharges: Considerations in the Psychiatric Population.