Design and Hospitalwide Implementation of a Standardized Discharge Summary in an Electronic Health Record.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The hospital discharge summary is the primary method used to communicate a patient's plan of care to the next provider(s). Despite the existence of regulations and guidelines outlining the optimal content for the discharge summary and its importance in facilitating an effective transition to posthospital care, incomplete discharge summaries remain a common problem that may contribute to poor posthospital outcomes. Electronic health records (EHRs) are regularly used as a platform on which standardization of content and format can be implemented. The feasibility of designing and implementing a standardized discharge summary hospitalwide using an EHR was examined-to the authors' knowledge, for the first time.

Methods

This large-scale project at the University of Wisc

SUBMITTER: Dean SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5367268 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature