Strategies for improving the patient discharge process have a beneficial effect on many hospital activities. The main objective of this research was to analyse the discharge process at Kashani Hospital in Esfahan, Iran in the fall of 2004. This study took the form of a case study in which data were collected by questionnaire, observation and checklist. SPSS and Operations Research (O.R.) methods were used to analyse data. The results showed that the average time for patients to complete the discharge process was 4.93 hours. The hospital personnel involved identified the main factors affecting average waiting time as patients' financial problems and distance between different wards. The longest hospital stay was 5.7 days in the Neurology ward. Findings showed there was a queue in completing medical records at the nursing and medical equipment stations.
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