Who is Responsible for Discharge Education of Patients? A Multi-Institutional Survey of Internal Medicine Residents.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Safely and effectively discharging a patient from the hospital requires working within a multidisciplinary team. However, little is known about how perceptions of responsibility among the team impact discharge communication practices.

Objective

Our study attempts to understand residents' perceptions of who is primarily responsible for discharge education, how these perceptions affect their own reported communication with patients, and how residents envision improving multidisciplinary communication around discharges.

Design

A multi-institutional cross-sectional survey.

Participants

Internal medicine (IM) residents from seven US residency programs at academic medical centers were invited to participate between March and May 2019, via email of an elect

SUBMITTER: Trivedi SP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8175511 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature