TY - JOUR T1 - Coding method change during COVID-19: a catalyst to improving the quality of electronic discharge summaries JF - Future Healthcare Journal JO - Future Healthc J SP - 108 LP - 108 DO - 10.7861/fhj.9-2-s108 VL - 9 IS - Suppl 2 AU - Rebecca Talbot AU - Chantal Liu AU - Nikita Cliff-Patel Y1 - 2022/07/01 UR - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/9/Suppl_2/108.abstract N2 - All inpatients discharged from hospital are expected to have a discharge summary to provide communication of important information to the community team and for the patient and any carers. At East Surrey Hospital, methods to increase compliance of completing discharge summaries, for example adding outstanding summaries to the medical division performance scorecard and including them on the risk register, resulted in an improvement of compliance from 68 to 83%. However, the quality of electronic discharge summaries was found to be lacking. During the COVID-19 initial response, coding was changed to electronic documentation, with coding taking 60% less time per … ER -