Improving the post-acute care discharge score (PACD) by adding patients’ self-care abilities: A prospective cohort study

• Daniel Koch ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Daniel Koch, Philipp Schuetz, Antoinette Conca

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of clinical nursing science, Kantonsspital Aarau AG, Aarau, Switzerland, University Department of Internal Medicine, Kantonsspital Aarau AG, Aarau, Switzerland

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• Philipp Schuetz ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Daniel Koch, Philipp Schuetz, Antoinette Conca

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliation University Department of Internal Medicine, Kantonsspital Aarau AG, Aarau, Switzerland

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• Sebastian Haubitz,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University Department of Internal Medicine, Kantonsspital Aarau AG, Aarau, Switzerland

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• Alexander Kutz,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University Department of Internal Medicine, Kantonsspital Aarau AG, Aarau, Switzerland

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• Beat Mueller ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliation University Department of Internal Medicine, Kantonsspital Aarau AG, Aarau, Switzerland

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• Helen Weber,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of clinical nursing science, Kantonsspital Aarau AG, Aarau, Switzerland

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• Katharina Regez,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University Department of Internal Medicine, Kantonsspital Aarau AG, Aarau, Switzerland

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• Antoinette Conca ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Daniel Koch, Philipp Schuetz, Antoinette Conca

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: antoinette.conca@ksa.ch

  ¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliations Department of clinical nursing science, Kantonsspital Aarau AG, Aarau, Switzerland, University Department of Internal Medicine, Kantonsspital Aarau AG, Aarau, Switzerland

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5271-7199

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• for the Triage Study Group

  ¶Membership of the Triage study group is provided in the Acknowledgments.

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