Discharge Summary Completion Timeliness and the Association of 30-Day Readmission
| Autor: | Kathryn Braddock, Claire B. Haga, Leila M. Tolaymat, Nancy L. Dawson, Mingyuan Yin, Patricia C. Lewis, Melinda S. Gillis |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Adult
Aged 80 and over Male medicine.medical_specialty Time Factors Adolescent business.industry Patient Discharge Summaries General Medicine Middle Aged Readmission rate Patient Readmission Young Adult Statistical significance Chart review Emergency medicine medicine Humans Female Completion time business Discharge summary Aged Retrospective Studies |
| Zdroj: | Southern medical journal. 114(5) |
| ISSN: | 1541-8243 |
| Popis: | This study aimed to review the association between timeliness to completion of a discharge summary to 30-day readmission to the hospital.This was a retrospective chart review of 109 patients discharged from Mayo Clinic Hospital.Twenty-four of these patients were readmitted within 30 days. The time to completion of discharge summary was categorized for these readmissions to72 hours: 15 (20%), between 72 hours and 7 days: 2 (11.1%), and7 days: 7 (43.7%). There was no statistical significance for readmission for discharge summaries completed between 72 hours and 7 days compared with72 hours (This study found that discharge summaries completed7 days have an increased association with 30-day readmission rate. |
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