Phoebe Scarfield, Thomas David Shepherd, Caitriona Stapleton, Alexandra Starks, Ellen Benn, Sara Khalid, Bryony Dayment, Alex Moate, Sandra Mohamed, Jasmine Lee
Discharge summaries are important medical documents that summarise a patient's hospital admission. The Royal College of Physicians provides standardised guidance on the content of discharge summaries, given their important role as a handover document to general practitioners (GPs). Our project started in June 2020 on an acute medical ward, where significant variation had been noted in the quality and content of discharge summaries. A multidisciplinary team (MDT) was formed including doctors, nurses and hospital/community pharmacists, as well as a patient representative, to ensure active patient co-design...
April 2022: BMJ Open Quality