[yankeecamper]

What aldrete score are you using to determine readiness for discharge, if that is your criteria?

My facility is currently saying a 7 or > is OK for d/c. I've worked in two other places where it was 8 or >. It seems to me that an aldrete of 7 can be too low for someone going to the floor, depending on which assessment parameter lowered the score.

[debthern]

our score is 14 to be discharged

[maggie77]

Aldrete has a max score of 10. For inpatients, we use 8. Outpatients must be 9.

[debthern]

we actually use an expanded aldrete that has a maximum of 14 and they have to reach 14 unless we have a doctors order.

[yankeecamper]

I have seen the scale you are refering to. It is more specific to outpatients isn't it?
We use the modified aldrete score, where the max is 10. When I look at the criteria, a sleepy but arousable person, with no leg movement yet for an epidural or spinal pt, and wearing O2 to keep sats > than 90% could be a 7. (They must be able to DB&C, and have B/P within 20%) Do you discharge these patients to the phase II or inpt units like this?