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Descriptor English: Patient Discharge
Descriptor Spanish: Alta del Paciente
Descriptor alta de pacientes
Entry term(s) alta hospitalaria
planificación del alta
Scope note: Proceso administrativo de salida del paciente, vivo o muerto, de un hospital u otro centro sanitario.
Descriptor Portuguese: Alta do Paciente
Descriptor French: Sortie du patient
Entry term(s): Discharge Planning
Discharge Plannings
Discharge, Patient
Discharges, Patient
Patient Discharges
Planning, Discharge
Plannings, Discharge
Tree number(s): E02.760.169.125
E02.760.400.610
N02.421.585.169.125
N02.421.585.400.610
N04.590.233.727.210.125
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D010351
Scope note: The administrative process of discharging the patient, alive or dead, from hospitals or other health facilities.
Allowable Qualifiers: EC economics
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
SN statistics & numerical data
ST standards
TD trends
Previous Indexing: Hospitalization (1966-1977)
Public MeSH Note: 78
History Note: 78
Related: Patient Discharge Summaries MeSH
DeCS ID: 10545
Unique ID: D010351
NLM Classification: WX 158
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1978/01/01
Date of Entry: 1977/05/12
Revision Date: 2016/05/31
Patient Discharge - Preferred
Concept UI M0016051
Scope note The administrative process of discharging the patient, alive or dead, from hospitals or other health facilities.
Preferred term Patient Discharge
Entry term(s) Discharge, Patient
Discharges, Patient
Patient Discharges
Discharge Planning - Narrower
Concept UI M0016050
Preferred term Discharge Planning
Entry term(s) Discharge Plannings
Planning, Discharge
Plannings, Discharge



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