ArticleJournal of graduate medical education2012
A structured workshop to improve the quality of resident discharge summaries.
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- Optimizing Neurology Inpatient Documentation: A Pilot Study of a Novel Discharge Documentation EHR Tool.The Neurohospitalist · 2024Article
- Improving the quality of inpatient discharge summaries.The International journal of risk & safety in medicine · 2022Article
- Lack of recognition and documentation of stress hyperglycemia is a disruptor of optimal continuity of care.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- The frequency and quality of delirium documentation in discharge summaries.BMC geriatrics · 2021Article
- Improving the quality of discharge summaries through a direct feedback system.Future healthcare journal · 2020Article
- A novel curriculum to train physician assistant students how to write effective discharge summaries.Medical education online · 2019Article
- Transitions of Care: Improving the Quality of Discharge Summaries Completed By Internal Medicine Residents.MedEdPORTAL : the journal of teaching and learning resources · 2017Article
- Education in Neurology Resident Documentation Using Payroll Simulation.Journal of graduate medical education · 2017Article
- Triple Duty: Integrating Graduate Medical Education With Maintenance of Board Certification to Improve Clinician Communication at Hospital Discharge.Journal of graduate medical education · 2015Article
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- Improving Continuity of Care via the Discharge Summary.AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium · 2015Article
- TRACER: an 'eye-opener' to the patient experience across the transition of care in an internal medicine resident program.Journal of community hospital internal medicine perspectives · 2015Article
- Rethinking the discharge summary: a focus on handoff communication.Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges · 2014Article
- Assessing Origins of Quality Gaps in Discharge Summaries: A Survey of Resident Physician Attitudes.Journal of biomedical educationArticle
- A Quality Improvement Approach to Improving Discharge Documentation.Pediatric quality & safetyArticle
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Abstract
backgroundPoor communication at hospital discharge can increase the risk of adverse events. The hospital discharge summary is the most common tool for detailing events related to hospitalization in preparation for postdischarge follow-up, yet deficiencies in discharge summaries have been widely reported. Resident physicians are expected to dictate discharge summaries but receive little formal training in this arena. We hypothesized that implementation of an educational program on chart documentation skills would result in improvements in the quality of hospital discharge summaries in a community hospital internal medicine residency program.
methodsA monthly, 1-hour workshop was launched in August 2007 to provide consistent and ongoing instruction on chart documentation. Guided by a faculty moderator, residents reviewed 2 randomly selected peer chart notes per session using instruments developed for that purpose. After the workshop had been in place for 2 years, 4 faculty members reviewed 63 randomly selected discharge summaries from spring 2007, spring 2008, and spring 2009 using a 14-item evaluation tool.
resultsMean scores for 10 of the 14 individual items improved in a stepwise manner during the 3 years of the study. Items related to overall quality of the discharge summary showed statistically significant improvement, as did the portion of the summaries "carbon copied" to the responsible outpatient physician.
conclusionsThe quality of hospital discharge summaries improved following the implementation of a novel, structured program to teach chart documentation skills. Ongoing improvement was seen 1 and 2 years into the program, suggesting that continuing instruction in those skills was beneficial.
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