Background: There is an emerging interest in the inadvertent harm caused to patients by the
provision of primary health-care services. To date (up to 2015), there has been limited …

Background Discharge from hospital presents significant risks to patient safety, with up to
one in five patients experiencing adverse events within 3 weeks of leaving hospital. Aim To …

We developed a writing rubric that assessed the quality of four common errors found in the
synopsis of a discharge summary: relevance, accuracy, clarity and presentation (R‐A‐C‐P) …

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Background The aim of this study was to assess the quality of effective discharge
communication to primary practice from a hospital that uses ieMR (integrated electronic …

Internationally, there is an emerging interest in the inadvertent harm caused to patients by
the provision of healthcare services. Since the publication of the Institute of Medicine's …

Background Communication regarding medicines at hospital discharge via discharge
summaries is notoriously poor and negatively impacts on patient care. With the process …

Transitions of patient care between hospital discharge and primary care are known to be an
area of high-risk where communication is imperative for patient safety. Discharge summaries …

Background: Discharge letters are important for transferring information from the hospital to
the GP. Patients are sometimes copied into these letters, but this is not standardised. Hence …

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