Discharge Summary

A millennial discharge summary.

Disclosures: Paul Wicks is just barely a millennial, which he thinks entitles him to make fun of his own generation (and to just be entitled generally). No patients were trolled during the writing of this article. Competing interests: I have read and understood BMJ policy on declaration of interests and declare that I have no competing interests. Provenance and peer review: Commissioned; not ex...

Summary : National Hospital Discharge Survey

● 1984 accounted for 159 discharges and 1,044 days of care per ,000civilian population. These and other statistics presented in this report are based on data collected by means of the National Hospital Discharge Survey, a continuous survey that has been conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics since 1965. In 1984, data were abstracted from the face sheets of medical records of app...

The importance of the discharge summary reports.

National hospital discharge survey: 2006 annual summary.

Objectives-This report presents 2006 national estimates and selected trend data on the use of nonfederal short-stay hospitals in the United States. Estimates are provided by selected patient and hospital characteristics, diagnoses, and surgical and nonsurgical procedures performed. Estimates of diagnoses and procedures are presented according to the International Classification of Diseases, Nin...

Design of an orthopaedic-specific discharge summary

BACKGROUND Patients undergoing orthopaedic procedures experience major changes in function and daily routines upon their return home. Discharge summaries are an important communication tool that may play a role in optimizing a safe transition from hospital. Current care gaps and key elements of an ideal discharge summary specific for orthopaedic population are unknown. We sought to identify the...