Diagnoses are coded on the hospital discharge summary by trained medical records personnel.

An intervention to improve the hospital discharge summary.

Hospital discharge summaries, specialist consultation reports and critical emergency room findings should be sent to family doctors, but that doesn't always happen.

The major data sources are hospital discharge summaries, pathology reports, patient records from cancer treatment institutions, and death certificates.

The team linked the Quebec hospital discharge summary database to the drugs claims database.

Other forms include an angioplasty booking form and a hospital discharge summary data collection form.

Clinical information is abstracted from the patient’s medical chart by a research nurse and coded to reflect information contained in the hospital discharge summary.

Ask your family doctor for a copy of vital health information, including immunization records, test results, doctor consultations from specialists and hospital discharge summaries.

A daily Therapeutic Intervention Score was calculated and hospital discharge summaries were used to verify patient outcomes.

Mr. Mineo left the hospital on Oct. 19; his lawyer read reporters what he said was a hospital discharge summary.

Investigators have those medical records, including a hospital discharge summary that the lawyers said described Mr. Mineo’s injuries as being caused by “anal assault.”

Nearly half of doctors also complained that it took too long for hospital discharge summaries to arrive, meaning patients were seen without a full set of records.

Consider adding divider tabs to separate blood tests, x-ray reports and doctor consultation reports and hospital discharge summaries.

In the event your family doctor does not have hospital discharge summaries, contact the medical record department at the hospital and specifically request the summary and nothing else.

Validity of death and stillbirth certificates and hospital discharge summaries for the identification of neural tube defects in Quebec City.

For each event involving hospitalization, a hospital discharge summary or expiration summary was to be submitted, and for each death a death certificate was required.

Data were obtained using a staffing workload index, assigned acuity levels with the San Joaquin Patient Classification System and hospital discharge summary data.

I had no concrete data to go on -- no consultation reports from doctors, no X-ray reports, no test results, no list of medications or immunizations, no history of allergic reactions, no hospital discharge summaries.

INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 10 (UPI) -- There are breakdowns in communication between hospital discharge summaries and doctors supposed to get test results and information, U.S. researchers said.

The e-health record is meant to bring medical records into the digital age and lists a patients medications and allergies, include a health summary written by a doctor and will in the future include X-ray results, pathology results, hospital discharge summaries.

Access to important patient information such as diagnostic test results, hospital discharge summaries, and consulting / referring physician notes was listed as a resource that 60% of respondents indicated they would like to see made available or improved online to assist in daily practice activities.

To conclude, the combination of hospital discharge summaries and infant death and stillbirth certificates is a highly sensitive method for the ascertainment of NTD cases, including terminations of pregnancies, but medical records must be reviewed to exclude coding errors and to clarify unspecific diagnostic categories.