Meeting
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 […]