Background: Outside hospital (OSH) transfer processes vary across institutions. The fragmented and complex nature of OSH transfers pose patient safety risks. A recent implementation of a standardized OSH transfer process with templated note for hospital medicine patients at our institution demonstrated promising patient safety outcomes and a significant increase in physician satisfaction. This pilot study [...]

Background: With the broad implementation of electronic health records, clinical documentation integrity continues to be under increasing scrutiny. On average, physicians spend over a third of their time documenting patient data¹; this burden has been extensively correlated to burnout². Leveraging automated note templates with integrated safety rounding checklists, we attempted to standardize more efficient documentation [...]