Quality of hospital discharge letters for patients at the end of life: A retrospective medical record review
| Autor: | Agnes van der Heide, Annemieke van der Padt-Pruijsten, Annemieke Talsma, T Martijn Kuijper, Maria B.L. Leys, Auke M T Huijben, Marijanne Engel |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
business.industry Medical record Medical information After discharge Hospitals Medical Records Patient Discharge Death Care setting Oncology Emergency medicine Hospital discharge Life expectancy Humans Medicine Continuity of care business End-of-life care Retrospective Studies |
| Zdroj: | European Journal of Cancer Care. 31 |
| ISSN: | 1365-2354 0961-5423 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/ecc.13524 |
| Popis: | OBJECTIVE For patients who are discharged to go home after a hospitalisation, timely and adequately informing their general practitioner is important for continuity of care, especially at the end of life. We studied the quality of the hospital discharge letter for patients who were hospitalised in their last year of life. METHODS A retrospective medical record review was performed. Included patients had been admitted to the hospital during the period 1 January to 1 July 2017 and had died within a year after discharge. RESULTS Data were collected from records of 108 patients with cancer or other diseases. For 57 patients (53%), the discharge letter included information that related to their limited life expectancy (e.g., agreements about treatment limitations), whereas the patient's limited life expectancy was addressed in the medical record in 76 cases (70%). We found related information in discharge letters for 36 patients (66%) who died |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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