Discharge against medical advice: 'deviant' behaviour or a health system quality gap?

BMJ Qual Saf. 2020 Apr;29(4):348-352. doi: 10.1136/bmjqs-2019-010332. Epub 2019 Dec 30.

¹ Medicine, University of Calgary Cumming School of Medicine and the O'Brien Institute for Public Health, Calgary, Alberta, Canada aambasta@ucalgary.ca.
² Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
³ Departments of Community Health Sciences & Medicine, and the O'Brien Institute for Public Health, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
⁴ Medicine, University of Calgary Cumming School of Medicine and the O'Brien Institute for Public Health, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

No abstract available

Keywords: against medical advice; discharge; patientsafety; quality gap.

MeSH terms