Document Type : Letter(s) to the Editor
Authors
- Zahra Ebnehoseini 1
- Hediye Khorasani 2
- Zahra Koohjani 3
- Mina Zibaei 4
- Amir Deghatipour 5
- Ali Saghebi 1
- Ali Reza Ebrahimi 1
- Masoumeh Boroujerdi 1
- Mohammad Reza Mehri 1
- Hamed Tabesh 6
1 Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
2 Department of Health Information Technologies, Emam Reza Hospital, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
3 Department of Health Information Technologies, Unit of Economic Health, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
4 Department of Health Information Management, Shahid Hasheminejad Hospital, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
5 Department of Health Information Management, Ibn-e-Sina Hospital, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
6 Department of Medical Informatics, School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
Abstract
Discharge against medical advice (AMA) has a higher rate in the psychiatric ward than in other clinical wards. Discharge AMA increases both the patient’s and the hospital’s costs of delivering clinical care.
Keywords
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