An Improved 'Interim Discharge Letter': A Successful Outcome from Audit

General practitioners were dissatisfied with this hospital's interim discharge letters. These were unstructured letters written by house officers shortly after the patient's discharge. A copy of the list of drugs prescribed on discharge was sent separately. After discussing the various nee...

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Autor principal: Clements, David
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Royal College of Physicians of London 1992
Materias:
Medical Audit
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5375538/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1588526
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description General practitioners were dissatisfied with this hospital's interim discharge letters. These were unstructured letters written by house officers shortly after the patient's discharge. A copy of the list of drugs prescribed on discharge was sent separately. After discussing the various needs with general practitioners a new form of discharge letter has been successfully introduced. The layout has been further modified in the light of feedback, and details of the new letter are presented. The new form has been well received by hospital staff and general practitioners. The paperwork for junior doctors has been reduced by the inclusion of the prescription in the discharge letter.
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spelling pubmed-53755382019-01-22 An Improved 'Interim Discharge Letter': A Successful Outcome from Audit Clements, David J R Coll Physicians Lond Medical Audit General practitioners were dissatisfied with this hospital's interim discharge letters. These were unstructured letters written by house officers shortly after the patient's discharge. A copy of the list of drugs prescribed on discharge was sent separately. After discussing the various needs with general practitioners a new form of discharge letter has been successfully introduced. The layout has been further modified in the light of feedback, and details of the new letter are presented. The new form has been well received by hospital staff and general practitioners. The paperwork for junior doctors has been reduced by the inclusion of the prescription in the discharge letter. Royal College of Physicians of London 1992-04 /pmc/articles/PMC5375538/ /pubmed/1588526 Text en © Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London 1992 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) , which permits non-commercial use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.
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