title: Hospital discharge summary scorecard: a quality improvement tool used in a tertiary hospital general medicine service.
abstract: We assessed the impact of completion and feedback of discharge summary scorecards on the quality of discharge summaries written by interns in a general medicine service of a tertiary hospital. The scorecards significantly improved summary quality in the first three rotations of the intern year and could be readily adopted by other units as a quality improvement intervention for optimizing clinical handover to primary care providers.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Woolloongabba, Queensland, Australia.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Singh
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Woolloongabba, Queensland, Australia.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Harvey
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Woolloongabba, Queensland, Australia.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dyne
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Woolloongabba, Queensland, Australia.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Said
authors.affiliation: Internal Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Scott
mesh_terms: D001315:Australia; D058006:General Practice; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D008485:Medical Audit; D010351:Patient Discharge / Q000592:standards / Q000639:trends; D058996:Quality Improvement / Q000592:standards / Q000639:trends; D062606:Tertiary Care Centers / Q000592:standards / Q000639:trends
keywords: discharge summary; documentation; quality improvement; resident education