Meeting
Abstract Number: 245
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Background: Patients admitted to inpatient hospital services are increasingly cared for by hospitalists rather than their primary care providers. When transitioning from hospital-based to ambulatory care, suboptimal information transfer can lead to serious adverse events and readmissions; therefore, demands for timely preparation of high-quality discharge summaries are increasing. Confronted with these demands, most hospitalists are […]
Abstract Number: 269
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Background: Multiple studies have established that delays in discharge summary transmission were associated with higher rates of all-cause hospital readmissions. It has been recently shown that delaying the completion of discharge summaries beyond 72 hours increased the risk of 30-day readmissions by 9%. We had embarked on an initiative to improve the rate of discharge […]