Table 1.

Disease-specific indicators designated for postdischarge care by telephone call follow-up^a

Disease	Indicator 1	Indicator 2	Indicator 3
Chronic disease with acute change
CHF with acute exacerbation	Body weight	Leg edemab	Dyspnea indexc
Liver cirrhosis with decompensation	Body weight	Consciousness
COPD with acute exacerbation	Fever	Dyspnea indexc	Sputum character
DM with poor control	Blood glucose
Hypertension with poor control	Blood pressure
Acute on chronic renal failure	Body weight	Urine output
Terminal cancer	Consciousness	Pain scaled	Dyspnea indexc
Acute illness
Ischemic stroke	Barthel score	Consciousness
UGI bleeding	Stool character	Heart rate
Pneumonia	Fever	Dyspnea indexc
Urinary tract infection	Fever	Dysuria
Cellulitis	Size of lesion	Local paind	Fever
Intraabdominal infection	Fever	Abdominal paind

^aCHF, congestive heart failure; COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; DM, diabetes mellitus; UGI, upper gastrointestinal. Blood pressure, body temperature, heart rate and blood glucose were measured by the patients or their caregivers at home. ^bMeasured by grading developed for cancer treatment [26]. ^cMeasured according to the Medical Research Council dyspnea scale [27]. ^dMeasured according to the Numerical Rating Scale [28].