General practitioner–hospital communications: A review of discharge summaries
- 1 December 2001
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Quality In Clinical Practice
- Vol. 21 (4) , 104-108
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1440-1762.2001.00430.x
Abstract
The objective of this study was to examine the reliability, effectiveness, accuracy and timeliness of hospital to general practitioner (GP) information transfer by discharge summaries produ...Keywords
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