Trial reportCirculation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes2015
Association of discharge summary quality with readmission risk for patients hospitalized with heart failure exacerbation.
Abstract readMulticenter StudyRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
30 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Post Discharge mHealth and Teach-Back Communication Effectiveness on Hospital Readmissions: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Pooled it
- A systematic review on the effect of the organisation of hospital discharge on patient health outcomes.BMJ open · 2016Pooled it
- Effect of integrated medicines management on quality of discharge medication information-a secondary endpoint in a randomized controlled trial.International journal for quality in health care : journal of the International Society for Quality in Health Care · 2024Trial
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- Lifestyle modification in older versus younger patients with coronary artery disease.Heart (British Cardiac Society) · 2020Trial
- Do Non-Clinical Factors Improve Prediction of Readmission Risk?: Results From the Tele-HF Study.JACC. Heart failure · 2016Trial
- Hospital variation in quality of discharge summaries for patients hospitalized with heart failure exacerbation.Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes · 2015Trial
- Automating the quality monitoring of a hospital discharge summary improvement project utilising large language models.NPJ digital medicine · 2026Article
- Transitional Care Support for Patients with Heart Failure: A Qualitative Study of Nursing Practices by Ward, Discharge Planning, and Visiting Nurses.The Kobe journal of medical sciences · 2026Article
- Towards an Integrated Person-Centred Care Pathway to Support the Recovery Journey Post Hip Fracture: A Qualitative Study.Journal of advanced nursing · 2026Article
- Diagnosis decoded: a taxonomy and natural language processing analysis of the diagnosis section in German hospital discharge summaries.Health care management science · 2025Article
- Beyond 'low salt, low fat': Reimagining nutrition advice in the cardiac discharge summary.American journal of preventive cardiology · 2025Article
- Summarize-then-Prompt: A Novel Prompt Engineering Strategy for Generating High-Quality Discharge Summaries.Applied clinical informatics · 2025Article
- Facilitators and barriers to medication self-management for patients with multiple long-term conditions transitioning from hospital to home.Exploratory research in clinical and social pharmacy · 2025Article
- Automated generation of discharge summaries: leveraging large language models with clinical data.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Diagnosis Documentation Done Right: Cross-Specialty Standard for the Diagnosis Section in German Discharge Summaries - A Mixed-Methods Study.Journal of general internal medicine · 2025Article
- Clinical pharmacist intervention to improve medication safety for hip fracture patients through secondary and primary care settings: a nonrandomised controlled trial.Journal of orthopaedic surgery and research · 2023Article
- The Quality of Discharge Summaries After Acute Kidney Injury.Canadian journal of kidney health and disease · 2023Article
- Improving the quality of inpatient discharge summaries.The International journal of risk & safety in medicine · 2022Article
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Authors and funding
7 authors.
Mohammed Salim Al-DamlujiFrom the Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine (M.S.A.-D., K.D., S.I.C.), Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine (B.H., H.M.K.), and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program, Department of Internal Medicine (H.M.K.), Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT; Department of Medicine, Erie County Medical Center, Buffalo, NY (N.P.); Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale-New Haven Hospital, CT (H.M.K., S.I.C.); Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, CT (H.M.K.); Center for Healthcare Innovation and Delivery Science, New York University Langone Medical Center (L.I.H.); Division of Healthcare Delivery Science, Department of Population Health (L.I.H.) and Division of General Internal Medicine and Clinical Innovation (L.I.H.), Department of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine.
Kristina DzaraFrom the Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine (M.S.A.-D., K.D., S.I.C.), Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine (B.H., H.M.K.), and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program, Department of Internal Medicine (H.M.K.), Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT; Department of Medicine, Erie County Medical Center, Buffalo, NY (N.P.); Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale-New Haven Hospital, CT (H.M.K., S.I.C.); Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, CT (H.M.K.); Center for Healthcare Innovation and Delivery Science, New York University Langone Medical Center (L.I.H.); Division of Healthcare Delivery Science, Department of Population Health (L.I.H.) and Division of General Internal Medicine and Clinical Innovation (L.I.H.), Department of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine.
Beth HodshonFrom the Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine (M.S.A.-D., K.D., S.I.C.), Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine (B.H., H.M.K.), and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program, Department of Internal Medicine (H.M.K.), Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT; Department of Medicine, Erie County Medical Center, Buffalo, NY (N.P.); Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale-New Haven Hospital, CT (H.M.K., S.I.C.); Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, CT (H.M.K.); Center for Healthcare Innovation and Delivery Science, New York University Langone Medical Center (L.I.H.); Division of Healthcare Delivery Science, Department of Population Health (L.I.H.) and Division of General Internal Medicine and Clinical Innovation (L.I.H.), Department of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine.
Natdanai PunnanithinontFrom the Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine (M.S.A.-D., K.D., S.I.C.), Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine (B.H., H.M.K.), and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program, Department of Internal Medicine (H.M.K.), Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT; Department of Medicine, Erie County Medical Center, Buffalo, NY (N.P.); Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale-New Haven Hospital, CT (H.M.K., S.I.C.); Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, CT (H.M.K.); Center for Healthcare Innovation and Delivery Science, New York University Langone Medical Center (L.I.H.); Division of Healthcare Delivery Science, Department of Population Health (L.I.H.) and Division of General Internal Medicine and Clinical Innovation (L.I.H.), Department of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine.
Harlan M KrumholzFrom the Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine (M.S.A.-D., K.D., S.I.C.), Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine (B.H., H.M.K.), and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program, Department of Internal Medicine (H.M.K.), Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT; Department of Medicine, Erie County Medical Center, Buffalo, NY (N.P.); Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale-New Haven Hospital, CT (H.M.K., S.I.C.); Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, CT (H.M.K.); Center for Healthcare Innovation and Delivery Science, New York University Langone Medical Center (L.I.H.); Division of Healthcare Delivery Science, Department of Population Health (L.I.H.) and Division of General Internal Medicine and Clinical Innovation (L.I.H.), Department of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine.
Sarwat I ChaudhryFrom the Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine (M.S.A.-D., K.D., S.I.C.), Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine (B.H., H.M.K.), and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program, Department of Internal Medicine (H.M.K.), Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT; Department of Medicine, Erie County Medical Center, Buffalo, NY (N.P.); Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale-New Haven Hospital, CT (H.M.K., S.I.C.); Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, CT (H.M.K.); Center for Healthcare Innovation and Delivery Science, New York University Langone Medical Center (L.I.H.); Division of Healthcare Delivery Science, Department of Population Health (L.I.H.) and Division of General Internal Medicine and Clinical Innovation (L.I.H.), Department of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine.
Leora I HorwitzFrom the Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine (M.S.A.-D., K.D., S.I.C.), Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine (B.H., H.M.K.), and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program, Department of Internal Medicine (H.M.K.), Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT; Department of Medicine, Erie County Medical Center, Buffalo, NY (N.P.); Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale-New Haven Hospital, CT (H.M.K., S.I.C.); Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, CT (H.M.K.); Center for Healthcare Innovation and Delivery Science, New York University Langone Medical Center (L.I.H.); Division of Healthcare Delivery Science, Department of Population Health (L.I.H.) and Division of General Internal Medicine and Clinical Innovation (L.I.H.), Department of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine. Leora.Horwitz@nyumc.org.
Funding
Telemonitoring to improve heart failure outcomesR01HL080228 · NHLBI · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI KRUMHOLZ, HARLAN MARC · 2005 to 2008
$6.9MCenter for Cardiovascular Outcomes Research at Yale UniversityU01HL105270 · NHLBI · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI CURTIS, JEPTHA PELHAM, KRUMHOLZ, HARLAN MARC · 2010 to 2013
$5.8MHeart Failure Readmissions in Older Adults: A Systems PerspectiveK08AG038336 · NIA · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI HORWITZ, LEORA · 2010 to 2013
$648kNHLBI NIH HHS 5 R01 HL080228NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL080228NHLBI NIH HHS U01 HL105270NHLBI NIH HHS U01 HL105270-04NIA NIH HHS K08 AG038336
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Patient ReadmissionContinuity of Patient CareDisease ProgressionHeart FailureHumansPatient AdmissionPatient DischargePatient Discharge SummariesQuality ControlQuality ImprovementQuality Indicators, Health CareRisk FactorsTelemedicineTime FactorsUnited Statesepidemiologyheart failurepatient readmissionquality of health care
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