In a recent study published in JAMA Network Open, researchers investigated whether large language models (LLMs) might improve the understandability and readability of hospital discharge summaries.

Complete and timely discharge summaries can help prevent readmissions and improve patient safety, suggests a study published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. Joint Commission-accredited ...

For heart failure patients making the transition from hospital to home, a discharge summary that gets to their primary doctors quickly and contains detailed and useful information can mean the ...

The workshop’s second panel was structured with one presentation and three reactions to that presentation. In the main presentation, Mark Williams, director of the Center for Health Services Research ...

NOTICE: The workshop that is the subject of this workshop summary was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National ...

CANTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MEDITECH customer Fraser Health (Surrey, B.C.) – the largest regional health authority in British Columbia – has experienced significant improvements in patient ...

If she’s especially efficient, Hospitalist Gigi Liu, MD, can complete a discharge summary in 20 minutes for a patient she treated for a few days at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore. But ...

For heart failure patients making the transition from hospital to home, a discharge summary that gets to their primary doctors quickly and contains detailed and useful information can mean the ...

New research could soon automate hospital discharge communication, adding critical data and cutting the time it takes the information to reach community health care providers from weeks to hours. The ...

Neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) discharge readiness is defined as the masterful attainment of technical skills and knowledge, emotional comfort, and confidence with infant care by the primary ...

Adults discharged from an acute respiratory infection virtual ward are given a discharge summary, including follow‑up details, that is also shared with their GP. The following measures can be used to ...