Abstract:Background
The discharge summary is the main method of communication integrating the care of older adults from the acute hospital admission to their discharge destination. HIQA published standards to ensure high quality and safe information transfer between settings. We designed an audit to evaluate the quality of the discharge summaries from the orthogeriatric service before and after the introduction of a discharge summary template for use by Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors (NCHDs) on the s… Show more
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