For heart failure patients making the transition from hospital to home, a discharge summary that gets to their primary doctors quickly and contains detailed and useful information can mean the ...

Sending complete, thorough discharge summaries to nursing homes when a person leaves a hospital promotes resident safety and lowers risk for readmissions, a new study finds. The Joint Commission, ...

Complete and timely discharge summaries can help prevent readmissions and improve patient safety, suggests a study published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. Joint Commission-accredited ...

Hospitals can reduce readmissions and speed up recovery by promptly delivering a detailed discharge summary to patients' doctors, according to two new studies from Yale School of Medicine published in ...

New research could soon automate hospital discharge communication, adding critical data and cutting the time it takes the information to reach community health care providers from weeks to hours. The ...

An effective hospital discharge process created by Cleveland Clinic is pivotal in the handoff of patients to postacute-care providers. Hospital discharge is a complex process involving the primary ...

The workshop’s second panel was structured with one presentation and three reactions to that presentation. In the main presentation, Mark Williams, director of the Center for Health Services Research ...

In a recent study published in JAMA Network Open, researchers investigated whether large language models (LLMs) might improve the understandability and readability of hospital discharge summaries.

I spent years as a staff pharmacist in a closed-door long-term care pharmacy. We served multiple buildings, pushed 35,000 pills out the door every day. I personally verified around 600 scripts daily.

NOTICE: The workshop that is the subject of this workshop summary was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National ...