TY - JOUR T1 - Improving the standard of discharge summaries using a quality improvement approach JF - Future Healthcare Journal JO - Future Healthc J SP - 105 LP - 106 DO - 10.7861/fhj.9-2-s105 VL - 9 IS - Suppl 2 AU - Thomas Shepherd AU - Caitriona Stapleton AU - Sara Khalid AU - Bryony Dayment AU - Alex Moate AU - Ellen Benn AU - Catrin Jones-Evans AU - Charu Kayan AU - Kirsten Fernandes AU - Sandra Mohamed AU - Phoebe Scarfield AU - Jasmine Lee Y1 - 2022/07/01 UR - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/9/Suppl_2/105.abstract N2 - Discharge summaries are an important handover tool used to ensure effective communication of clinical information between secondary and primary care. Poor discharge summary completion can have a negative impact on the safe transfer of care, quality of clinical care, and patient safety. GP quality alerts, patient safety incidents and patient advice and liaison services (PALS) complaints within the trust had highlighted concerns regarding discharge summaries. Our aim was to improve the standard of discharge summaries on the acute medical unit (AMU) using a quality improvement (QI) approach.Our multidisciplinary team (MDT) included two medical students, a … ER -