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 ...

Kumar and colleagues assessed LLM’s ability to translate discharge summary notes into plain language to improve patient comprehension. 2. Patients, especially those with limited health literacy, ...

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 ...

NEW HAVEN >> Making sure a detailed discharge summary gets quickly from the hospital to a patient’s doctor can avoid readmission and aid in recovery, according to two Yale School of Medicine studies.

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 ...

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 ...

As a pilot site of Hospital Course Summary, Fraser Health captured feedback from providers using the tool. More than 95% of users said they would recommend the tool to a colleague and 87% reported a ...

It is critical to have a solid system for discharge planning that begins even before the resident is admitted to the facility. Individualized, resident-centered discharge planning will provide a solid ...

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 ...