Patients' Discharge from Subacute Care: Determining Discharge Readiness

This thesis found that determining discharge-readiness from subacute care is complex and nuanced. Streamlining discharge planning processes from subacute care includes strengthening relationships between subacute and ambulatory services; and ensuring sound supervision and role-modelling to increase clinicians' skills in effective communication, patient and family-centred goal setting, and risk assessment and management.<p></p>