Discharge Planning
Discharge planning involves completing the Discharge worksheet that records the
interdisciplinary approach to the continuity of care. It is a process that includes
identification, assessment, planning, and coordination. The use of the discharge worksheets
help the patient, family, and care team determine what is needed to create a successful
discharge plan. By completing the worksheet, organizations can mitigate re-admission risks
and help provide better discharge outcomes. The Discharge worksheet case type does not have a life cycle configured in Pega Care
Management. The available options for discharge are: For more information about discharge planning, see the Pega Care Management
Business Use Case Guide on the Pega Documentation home page. The following list describes items that are related to the Discharge Planning
Microjourney: Configure a post-discharge care plan so that when you resolve a Discharge plan case
for a hospitalized patient, the patient is automatically enrolled in the assigned discharge
care plan. You can select the default assessment that is used for discharge plans such as a
pre-discharge assessment. When a patient is discharged, the discharge plan is automatically
updated with the selected assessment. Because organizations recognize different parameters for length of stay for a
patient observation in the hospital, to meet your organization's needs, you can configure
the number of days for a patient observation period during an admission. In App Studio, you can view the data model for the Discharge Planning in
Case types. Click the Data model tab on the Discharge
plan page. During the Discharge worksheet case type, nurses document the discharge disposition,
medications, doctor appointments, and laboratory test appointments. Based on the needs of your organization, you can configure different sources for these
options. Parameter is CodeSearch: NDC Field values that are available in the PegaHC-Data-Observation class
are the source for the Lab test name drop-down list in the
Lab test appointments section. You can resolve the Discharge worksheet case or the Admission case. While resolving discharge worksheet, you can close the admission case or keep it open.
You are presented with the “Do you want to resolve the admission case?” query. If you
click Yes, provide the actual discharge date to resolve the
admission case. Based on the response, the IsResolveAdmission flag
is set. If you click Yes, the
ActualDischargeDate field is visible and the admission case
is resolved per the ResolveAdmissionCase activity rule. Otherwise,
only the discharge worksheet is resolved.Configuring a post-discharge care plan
Configuring the assessment setting for discharge plans
Configuring an observation period
Data model for Discharge Planning
Rules for Discharge Planning
Key rules for discharge planning
Rule name Rule type Purpose DischargeDisposition Property - Prompt List Source for the Discharge to drop-down
list Declare_CommonMedication Data page Displays dosage details for the old medication dose details D_DrugCodesSearchResults Data page Fetches dosage details for the new medication based on the drug code.
D_MedicationsForDischarge Data page Stores medications DoctorAppointments Property- Pagelist Contains a list of doctor appointments ObservationAppointment Property- Pagelist Contains a list of laboratory observation appointments Resolving the parent case or the child case
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