For heart failure patients making the transition from hospital to home, a discharge summary that gets to their primary doctors quickly and contains detailed and useful information can mean the ...

Hospitals can reduce readmissions and speed up recovery by promptly delivering a detailed discharge summary to patients' doctors, according to two new studies from Yale School of Medicine published in ...

An effective hospital discharge process created by Cleveland Clinic is pivotal in the handoff of patients to postacute-care providers. Hospital discharge is a complex process involving the primary ...

Complete and timely discharge summaries can help prevent readmissions and improve patient safety, suggests a study published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. Joint Commission-accredited ...

If she’s especially efficient, Hospitalist Gigi Liu, MD, can complete a discharge summary in 20 minutes for a patient she treated for a few days at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore. But ...

Adults discharged from an acute respiratory infection virtual ward are given a discharge summary, including follow‑up details, that is also shared with their GP. The following measures can be used to ...

CHENNAI: Amidst the debate whether the COVID 19 deaths and cases are underreported, a few COVID patients who have been discharged from government hospitals said they were not provided with discharge ...