Revised discharge form improves continuity of care.
A well-devised patient discharge form can help to alleviate chart retrieval problems at hospital clinics and can get patients involved in their own health care. The discharge form developed at The Mount Sinai Hospital, New York City, has been especially helpful to physicians because the form contains essential information about patients that can be used when a chart is unavailable.
D003266:Continuity of Patient Care; D006746:Hospital Bed Capacity, 500 and over; D008499:Medical Records / Q000592:standards*; D009519:New York City; D010351:Patient Discharge