Do we need a new word for discharge summaries?
Transition of care documents, clinical handovers - it doesn't matter what we call them they just need to be a down-and-dirty quick take that doctors have time to read
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Do we need a new word for discharge summaries?
In this country, the US, we bulked them up and renamed them ‘Transition of Care Documents’ and they made life more complicated in many ways.