Rationale and objective The discharge summary (DS) is one of the most important
instruments to transmit information to the treating general physician (GP). The objective of …

Background The transition from hospital inpatient care to medical care in the community is a
high‐risk period for adverse events. Inadequate communication, including low‐quality or …

Background Hospital discharge summaries play a critical role in ensuring safe and efficient
continuity of care, particularly through transmission of key information from secondary to …

Background The discharge document summarising an acute inpatient stay in hospital is
often the only means of communication between secondary and primary care. This is …

Objective. Although doctors' discharge summaries (DS) are important forms of
communication between the physicians in patient care, deficits in the quality of DS are …

Background: It is a compulsory requirement that a hospital produces a discharge summary.
This is often the only documentation a GP receives in relation to a recent admission …

Objectives The discharge summary (DS) represents one of the most important instruments to
ensure a safe patient discharge from the hospital. They sometimes have poor quality in …

Aims: To determine if the discharge summary and verbal communication are providing
comprehensive information to the patients discharged from Soba university hospital …

Background Hospital discharge summaries enable communication between inpatient and
outpatient physicians. Despite existing guidelines for discharge summaries, they are …

Background Unexplained changes to medication are common at hospital discharge and
underscore the need to standardise patient discharge clinical documentation. In 2013, the …