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SUBMITTER: Corrado J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4693093 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Corrado Joanna J Topley Kathryn K Cracknell Alison A
BMJ quality improvement reports 20150909 1
At Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust doctors type an electronic discharge advice note (eDAN) which includes a prescription for discharge medication, before a patient can be discharged from hospital. In 2014 staff on the Medical Admissions Unit for Older People identified significant delays in the completion of this document, with an average completion time of 138 minutes. This caused patient harm and exacerbated bed management problems as patients remained in hospital longer than necessary to o ...[more]