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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/ahrq-funded-patient-safety-project-highlights-improving-patient-safety-enhancing-medication
January 16, 2025 - This summary is part of a series describing AHRQ-funded patient safety research; other summaries focus
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/failure-follow-test-results-ambulatory-patients-systematic-review
March 23, 2012 - April 10, 2024
Accuracy of medication documentation in hospital discharge summaries: … a retrospective analysis of medication transcription errors in manual and electronic discharge summaries
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/43791/psn-pdf
December 17, 2014 - patients' abilities to follow discharge instructions and makes recommendations to improve after-visit
summaries
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/865455/psn-pdf
March 27, 2024 - communication in care transitions.4
Shared and Standardized Documentation
Documentation, such as discharge summaries … Unclear discharge
summaries that omit important follow-up plan details or include unclear language such … understanding-medication-safety-involving-patient-transfer-intensive-care-hospital-ward
https://psnet.ahrq.gov//#_edn4
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/danger-discharge-summaries-abbreviations-create-confusion-both-author-and-recipient … Establishing a process for maintaining clear, accurate, standardized, and patient-centered discharge
summaries … facilitates patient safety during transitions of care when the discharge summaries are made
available
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49470/psn-pdf
December 01, 2004 - For example, in a recent audit of discharge
summaries at our hospital, the median delay between patient … Often, summaries lack important information describing the most responsible diagnosis, the
results of … the medications prescribed at discharge, or the follow-up plans.(4) In addition,
although discharge summaries … Dictated versus database-generated discharge
summaries: a randomized clinical trial. … Highlight changes from discharge
Specifically inform patient about side effects
Discharge summaries
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psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/conversation-witheric-coleman-md-mph
December 01, 2007 - care, such as discharge medications (absent from a median of 21% of discharge summaries), pending test … The Joint Commission considers discharge summaries to be part of the hospital record and requires that … Discharge summaries should be structured with subheadings to organize and highlight the key information … Hospitals should use information technology to facilitate completion of discharge summaries by filling … If the Joint Commission mandated, for example, that discharge summaries be completed and delivered to
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psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/care-transitions
December 01, 2007 - care, such as discharge medications (absent from a median of 21% of discharge summaries), pending test … The Joint Commission considers discharge summaries to be part of the hospital record and requires that … Discharge summaries should be structured with subheadings to organize and highlight the key information … Hospitals should use information technology to facilitate completion of discharge summaries by filling … If the Joint Commission mandated, for example, that discharge summaries be completed and delivered to
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/enhancing-patient-safety-and-reducing-errors-health-care
July 10, 2019 - Themes covered in the session summaries include the culture of safety, adverse drug event reduction,
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/46566/psn-pdf
June 25, 2018 - patient-safety-concerns-arising-test-results-return-after-hospital-discharge
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/adequacy-hospital-discharge-summaries-documenting-tests-pending-results-and-outpatient-follow
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/43760/psn-pdf
March 20, 2015 - pending-studies-hospital-discharge-pre-post-analysis-electronic-medical-record-tool-improve
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/adequacy-hospital-discharge-summaries-documenting-tests-pending-results-and-outpatient-follow
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/46830/psn-pdf
May 30, 2018 - goals-of-care discussions, coordination of
care plans, medication reconciliation, high-quality discharge summaries
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/43983/psn-pdf
February 05, 2016 - near-miss-transcription-errors-comparison-reporting-rates-between-novel-error-reporting
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/accuracy-medication-documentation-hospital-discharge-summaries-retrospective-analysis
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/43141/psn-pdf
April 30, 2014 - patient safety processes, such as hospital-to-
home transitions and timely completion of discharge summaries
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/please-write-me-writing-outpatient-clinic-letters-patients-guidance
March 04, 2020 - communication with their patients, such as encouraging physicians to write care letters and visit summaries
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/discharge-fumbles
September 09, 2009 - For example, in a recent audit of discharge summaries at our hospital, the median delay between patient … Often, summaries lack important information describing the most responsible diagnosis, the results of … the medications prescribed at discharge, or the follow-up plans.( 4 ) In addition, although discharge summaries … Dictated versus database-generated discharge summaries: a randomized clinical trial. … from discharge Specifically inform patient about side effects Discharge summaries
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/34639/psn-pdf
March 02, 2011 - Clinical experts then prepared discharge summaries, including an opinion on whether a death
was preventable
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/34065/psn-pdf
February 09, 2011 - number of strategies that included reports from health care providers,
review of hospital discharge summaries
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/wristband-standardization-initiative
January 08, 2020 - September 26, 2019
The effect of workload reduction on the quality of residents' discharge summaries
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psnet.ahrq.gov/glossary/handoffs-and-handovers
September 13, 2021 - Even structured, fairly thorough summaries during handovers may fail to capture nuances that could subsequently
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/omitted-and-unjustified-medications-discharge-summary
May 18, 2022 - This study discovered that drug omissions and unjustified medications listed in discharge summaries