What is it about?
The paper explores the underlying factors that drive patients and caregivers in a Ghanaian hospital to ask for discharge when they are not fully healed. The study found that cultural reasons, financial challenges, perceptions around recovery, poor health literacy, and shortage of medical equipment and staff are among the reasons why patients ask for dischanged against medical advice. Based on these critical factors, we have argued for a different understanding of discharge against medical advice.
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Why is it important?
This study is among a few studies in Ghana examining patients' perspectives for asking for discharge against medical advice. Following the underlying factors driving this phenomenon, we have recommended a new look at this problem from healthcare quality perspective.
Perspectives
This is an important studies nurses, healthcare managers, and medical staff should read to understanding the complex and dynamic nature of patient discharge against medical advice in Ghana.
Dr. Abukari Kwame
University of Saskatchewan
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This page is a summary of: Understanding patients’ decision to leave hospital care in Ghana: clinical cases and underlying determinants, BMC Nursing, November 2024, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1186/s12912-024-02469-9.
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