Preventing potentially avoidable readmissions in a general internal medicine division by improving the timeliness of discharge summaries
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serval:BIB_700FA981FB94
Type
Inproceedings: an article in a conference proceedings.
Publication sub-type
Poster: Summary – with images – on one page of the results of a researche project. The summaries of the poster must be entered in "Abstract" and not "Poster".
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Title
Preventing potentially avoidable readmissions in a general internal medicine division by improving the timeliness of discharge summaries
Title of the conference
Discharge
Organization
International Forum on Quality & Safety in Healthcare Paris 2014
Address
http://video.internationalforum.bmj.com/quality-forum-2014/posters/53215a743a1b4807230003e0
Publication state
Published
Issued date
04/2014
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Language
english
Abstract
Evidence shows that exceeding delay in discharge summary (DS) dissemination can have an impact on patients' outcome such as unplanned readmissions, especially among complex patients. To decrease median delay for DS dissemination in our general internal medicine division, the process to produce the DS was completely reengineered using the electronic patient record. Results showed a decrease of 3.20 day for DS dissemination. Concomitantly the potentially avoidable readmission rate within 30 days for patients discharged to home showed a decrease of 2.00 % to reach 7.79%, being in the tolerance interval for the expected rate, whereas it was outside of the tolerance interval before the reengineered process.
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