Written medical discharge communication from an acute stroke service: a project to improve content through development of a structured stroke-specific template.

ABSTRACT: Specific guidelines for the content of discharge summaries from acute stroke services do not currently exist. The aims of this project were to assess the strengths and weaknesses of stroke discharge communication from Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, to develop a structured template to guide completion, and to re-audit discharge communication following its implementation. The audit compared local performance against record standards from the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (1), which was augmented by criteria generated from the British Association of Stroke Physicians (BASP) Stroke Service Standards (2). Discharge information was examined within the Trust's Electronic Discharge Communication (EDC) system to determine the recording of selected items for consecutively discharged pati

SUBMITTER: Makela P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4652697 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature