Discharge Handoff Curriculum: Case #3
Scenario: Pretend again for a moment that you are a busy primary care provider. You have 20 minutes scheduled to see each patient. You are about to enter a room and you see the RN lists "hospital follow-up vist" as this patient's chief complaint. Luckily, you go to the patient's chart and are able to find a completed discharge summary (I say you are lucky because the national average is <35% for PCP's having a D/C summary available at the first follow-up appointment). In order to actually spend some time with your patient... you only are allowed 3 minutes to read the following summary and decide what items you will need to address during your visit.
This was written using the EMR and used a template to help organize the summary. The author also used the EMR to auto-insert various test results and medications. Please read the summary and answer the following questions: