Question

1. Should some services remain as an inpatient procedure/process in the medical field, or should healthcare push the envelope to transition more inpatient services to outpatient?

2. While patients aren’t able to rest because of constant monitoring, should the patients still be discharged to home care if they do not have mirrored care? What are the dangers/ impact? Anyone with statistics on returning patients due to complications arising at home?

Answer 1

Some procedure should be remained as an inpatient procedure as not every procedure in health care could not do in out patient department.there are invasive and non invasive procedure.invasive procedures should be conducted by following sterile techniques.otherwise ,it will have harmful effect on patient.non invasive procedure can be done in outpatient as it is also sterile procedure but no need of aseptic techniques like invasive procedure such as any surgeries.Thus,some invasive procedure should be remained as an inpatient procedure.

It is true that patient cannot get adequate rest in the hospital due to frequent check ups .But,patient cannot be discharged for this reason.for instance patient with hypertension get admitted in the hospital for further management.while,blood pressure monitoring is an important procedure to prevent further complications.sometime doctors give orders to check b.p hourly according to the patient condition.through this only doctor can understand that is he responding to the medication or any change is needed.if any fluctuation occur we can easily understand through continuous monitoring.if patient get discharged for to get rest it can create complications.because,nobody is there to monitor his condition.sometimes he may get paralysed due to stroke.it is not necessary to get emergency treatment in home.thus,patient should not get discharged for such reasons.