Quality of Discharge Summaries sent by a Regional Hospital to General Practitioners
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Towards Better Discharge Summaries
In an investigation of the communication between Hospital and General Practitioners, 99 General Practitioners were asked by means of a postal questionnaire to state the relative importance they attached to the issues of speed of delivery, format, author, and the content of the discharge summaries. The issue of speed of delivery proved to be a central and recurrent theme in the replies received,...
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