Surgical patients' experiences of readiness for hospital discharge and perceived quality of discharge teaching in acute care hospitals.

Aims And Objectives: To examine the level of perception of the quality of discharge teaching and its associations with the readiness for hospital discharge among surgical patients in acute care hospitals.

Background: Discharge teaching is a primary strategy to facilitate patients' readiness for hospital discharge. The extent to which the surgical ward was perceived as providing patient-focused education when discharged has never been explored.