What Happened to My Patient? An Educational Intervention to Facilitate Postdischarge Patient Follow-Up.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Following up on patients' clinical courses after hospital discharge may enhance physicians' learning and care of future patients. Barriers to this practice for residents include time constraints, discontinuous training environments, and difficulty accessing patient information.

Objective

We designed an educational intervention facilitating informed self-assessment and reflection through structured postdischarge follow-up of patients' longitudinal clinical courses. We then examined the experience of interns who received this intervention in a mixed methods study.

Methods

Internal medicine interns on a 4-week patient safety rotation received lists of hospitalized patients they had cared for earlier in the year. They selected patients for chart review and comp

SUBMITTER: Narayana S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5646923 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature