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Improving handoff communication from hospital to home: the development, implementation and evaluation of a personalized patient discharge letter

Improving handoff communication from hospital to home: the development, implementation and evaluation of a personalized patient discharge letter

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Objective To develop, implement and evaluate a personalized patient discharge letter (PPDL) to improve the quality of handoff communication from hospital to home. Design From the end of 2006–09 we conducted a quality improvement project; consisting of a before–after evaluation design, and a process evaluation. Setting Four general internal medicine wards, in a 1024-bed teaching hospital in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Participants All consecutive patients of 18 years and older, admitted for at least 48 h. Interventions A PPDL, a plain language handoff communication tool provided to the patient at hospital discharge. Main Outcome Measures Verbal and written information provision at discharge, feasibility of integrating the PPDL into daily practice, pass rates of PPDLs provided at discharge. Results A total of 141 patients participated in the before–after evaluation study. The results from the first phase of quality improvement showed that providing patient with a PPDL increased the number of patients receiving verbal and written information at discharge. Patient satisfaction with the PPDL was 7.3. The level of implementation was low (30%). In the second phase, the level of implementation improved because of incorporating the PPDL into the electronic patient record (EPR) and professional education. An average of 57% of the discharged patients received the PPDL upon discharge. The number of discharge conversations also increased. Conclusion Patients and professionals rated the PPDL positively. Key success factors for implementation were: education of interns, residents and staff, standardization of the content of the PPDL, integrating the PPDL into the electronic medical record and hospital-wide policy.

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OrganisatieHogeschool van Amsterdam
Gepubliceerd inInternational Journal for Quality in Health Care Oxford University Press, Vol. 28, Uitgave: 3, Pagina's: 384-390
Datum2016-06
TypeArtikel
DOI10.1093/intqhc/mzw046
TaalEngels

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