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ArticleInternal medicine journal2025

Time for a rethink? Discharge summary completion is often delayed and associated with increased readmission.

Oliver Kleinig, Lewis Hains, Ashwin Murugappa, Samuel Gluck, Jarrod Marks, Toby Gilbert, Stephen Bacchi

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Article in Internal medicine journal, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Oliver KleinigAdelaide Medical School, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-3320-4424
Lewis HainsAdelaide Medical School, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.ORCID 0009-0003-0577-9105
Ashwin MurugappaAdelaide Medical School, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
Samuel GluckDivision of Medicine, Lyell McEwin Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-7883-517X
Jarrod MarksDivision of Medicine, Lyell McEwin Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
Toby GilbertAdelaide Medical School, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
Stephen BacchiAdelaide Medical School, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-5130-8628

Funding

Fulbright AssociationNorthern Adelaide Local Health Network
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A retrospective review of 7185 South Australian discharge summaries revealed that 37.6% of discharge summaries were released at least a day after discharge, and per day of delay of medical discharge summary release, the chance of hospital 30-day readmission increased by 1.60% (P < 0.001). Delays may be associated with the task being time-consuming. The workforce impact of junior doctor time and increased readmission rates favours interventions to change discharge summary workflows.

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Patient DischargePatient Discharge SummariesPatient ReadmissionAdultAgedAustraliaFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedRetrospective StudiesSouth AustraliaTime Factorsartificial intelligencedischarge summaryhospital efficiencymachine learning

Identifiers

PMID40928894
PMCPMC12422295

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