What constitutes a high quality discharge summary?:A comparison between the views of secondary and primary care doctors

Yemm, Rowan, Bhattacharya, Debi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3024-7453, Wright, David and Poland, Fiona ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0003-6911 (2014) What constitutes a high quality discharge summary?:A comparison between the views of secondary and primary care doctors. International Journal of Medical Education, 5. pp. 125-131. ISSN 2042-6372

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Abstract

This study aimed to identify any differences in opinion between UK hospital junior doctors and community General Practitioners (GPs) with respect to the ideal content and characteristics of discharge summaries, and to explore junior doctors' training for and awareness of post-discharge requirements of GPs.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	© 2014 Rowan Yemm et al. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use of work provided the original work is properly cited. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
Uncontrolled Keywords:	attitude of health personnel,continuity of patient care,general practitioners,great britain,health care surveys,humans,patient discharge summaries,physicians, primary care,pilot projects,primary health care,questionnaires
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Pharmacy (former - to 2024) Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > School of Health Sciences
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Dementia & Complexity in Later Life Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Patient Care
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	31 Jul 2015 12:58
Last Modified:	25 Sep 2024 11:58
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/53841
DOI:	10.5116/ijme.538b.3c2e

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