Discharge communications between hospital and community health care staff

A selective review

Dados Bibliográficos

ID14947873
AutoresJosé Clo (0000-0002-3257-5277, University of Hull, autor correspondente), S J CLOSS
Ano2007
Volume5
Fascículo3
Páginas181-197
Data de publicação2007-06-08
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoHealth & Social Care in the Community (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0966-0410 • E-ISSN: 1365-2524
EditoraHindawi Limited (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/j.1365-2524.1997.tb00113.x
OpenAlexW2111123563
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas28

The rate of turnover of NHS hospital patients is rising, while lengths of stay are becoming shorter. This means that newly discharged patients are increasingly dependent and many are in need of carefully planned and immediate care in the community. The appropriate provision of such care requires effective communications across the hospital-community interface. This review was undertaken in order to determine the current research base for effective discharge information exchange across the primary—secondary interface. It examines six aspects of communications between nursing and medical staff based in the hospital and the community. These include the timing of dispatch and receipt of discharge information, its content, format and mode of transmission, as well as the contributors to, and direction of, communications. Recommendations are made for improving communications across the interface, as well as for further research

Business · Health care · Hospital discharge · Information exchange · Intensive care medicine · Medical emergency · Political science · Receipt · Telecommunications · Computer Science · Healthcare innovation and challenges · Healthcare Systems and Technology · Medicine · Nursing