Patient Discharge Summaries
"Patient Discharge Summaries" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Summaries that serve as the primary documents communicating a patient's care plan to the post-hospital care team.
| Descriptor ID |
D063886
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| MeSH Number(s) |
N04.452.859.564.725 N05.715.360.300.715.500.665 N06.850.520.308.940.968.750
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| Concept/Terms |
Patient Discharge Summaries- Patient Discharge Summaries
- Discharge Summaries, Patient
- Discharge Summary, Patient
- Patient Discharge Summary
- Summaries, Patient Discharge
- Summary, Patient Discharge
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Patient Discharge Summaries" by people in Profiles.
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Estimating the obstetric co-morbidity burden using administrative data: The impact of the pregnancy-related assessment window. Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol. 2020 07; 34(4):440-451.
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Evaluating the impact of expanding the number of diagnosis codes reported in inpatient discharge databases on the counts and rates of birth defects. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2018 11 01; 25(11):1524-1533.
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Constructing post-surgical discharge instructions through a Delphi consensus methodology. Patient Educ Couns. 2018 05; 101(5):917-925.
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Design and Rationale of a Randomized Trial of a Care Transition Strategy in Patients With Acute Heart Failure Discharged From the Emergency Department: GUIDED-HF (Get With the Guidelines in Emergency Department Patients With Heart Failure). Circ Heart Fail. 2017 Feb; 10(2).
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Discharge medication complexity and 30-day heart failure readmissions. Res Social Adm Pharm. 2017 Jul - Aug; 13(4):857-863.
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Readability of discharge summaries: with what level of information are we dismissing our patients? Am J Surg. 2016 Mar; 211(3):631-6.
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Improving patients' postdischarge communication: making every word count. Circulation. 2014 Sep 23; 130(13):1091-4.