Question

How a mobile team can help to reduce the duration of a hospitalisation?

Problem description

Our team is informed by the hospitals only when the hospital stay is coming to an end, when the discharge is already planned or when the patient has already returned home.  So there is no possibility for synchronising or for preparing the discharge.  Also, it’s very difficult to gain access to the medical information of patient, or to get a doctor on the telephone.  The issue of shared professional confidentially or secrecy arises, who can say what to whom?

Impact - effect

We can only establish a relationship with the patient once he’s home.  And again, data are collected (anamnesis), time is lost, and the chance is real we’re missing information that is relevant to our work

To do

To do: make hospital records accessible for the mobile team, in combination with maintaining the availability of psychiatrists

Hyperlink

http://www.mobileteamsconnecting.eu/bijlagen/H12%20-%20plan%20de%20crise%20(Lausanne).pdf

Theme

Hospitalisation

Topic

useful in facilitating coordination between mobile teams and hospital

Reference -  contact

Magali Baron, Mélanie Henry

Mobile team

2B

Project

réseau santé Namur

Intership abroad - place

Lausanne (SIM)

Date

November 2012