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  • Quality of Discharge Summaries sent by a Regional Hospital to General Practitioners

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    Karaksha, Abdullah
    Hattingh, Laetitia
    Hall, Tony
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Hattingh, Laetitia L.
    Karaksha, Abdullah
    Hall, Tony
    Year published
    2010
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    Background: A comprehensive hospital discharge summary sent to the patient's general practitioner (GP) in a timely manner can ease patient transition between care settings. Aim: To investigate the quality of discharge summaries sent by a regional hospital to GPs; and to evaluate GPs' satisfaction with the medication list contained in the discharge summary. Method: A questionnaire was mailed to a sample of 80 Gold Coast GPs who had made more than five referrals to the Gold Coast Hospital during June 2009. Results: 18 responses (23% response rate) were received from September to October 2009. The majority (67%) of GPs received ...
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    Background: A comprehensive hospital discharge summary sent to the patient's general practitioner (GP) in a timely manner can ease patient transition between care settings. Aim: To investigate the quality of discharge summaries sent by a regional hospital to GPs; and to evaluate GPs' satisfaction with the medication list contained in the discharge summary. Method: A questionnaire was mailed to a sample of 80 Gold Coast GPs who had made more than five referrals to the Gold Coast Hospital during June 2009. Results: 18 responses (23% response rate) were received from September to October 2009. The majority (67%) of GPs received discharge summaries from the hospital and they were mostly in an electronic format with attached medication lists. The reasons for changing medications were not well explained and the timeframe for receiving summaries was considered unsatisfactory. Overall, the majority of GPs were satisfied with the quality of the discharge summaries. Conclusion: GPs mostly received the discharge summaries and the majority received them electronically. The majority of GPs indicated that the medication lists were often attached to the discharge summaries and changes to medications recorded.
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    Journal Title
    Journal of Pharmacy Practice and Research
    Volume
    40
    Issue
    3
    Publisher URI
    http://jppr.shpa.org.au/scripts/cgiip.exe/WService=SHPAJP/ccms.r
    Copyright Statement
    © 2010 Journal of Pharmacy Practice and Research. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.
    Subject
    Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacy Practice
    Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/34849
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