Hellesø Ragnhild, Sogstad Maren Kristine Raknes
Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo, Norway.
Centre for Care Research, Gjøvik University College, Gjøvik, Norway.
Stud Health Technol Inform. 2014;201:335-41.
Hospital nurses' and physicians' production and exchange of accurate information between levels of care are crucial for ensuring safe and seamless care for patients in transition. We report on a study in which we explored hospital providers' use of information sources when they prepared discharge information for colleges in the community health-care sector. In this cross-sectional study, 510 nurses and 236 physicians responded through a questionnaire. Our findings show that nurses and physicians use different information sources in patient records when they produce their discharge summaries.
