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September 16, 2025Primary Health Care Research & DevelopmentOpen Access

One template does not fit all: where next to improve hospital discharge communication to primary care?

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NBNicholas BoddyJRJoanne ReeveRSRachel Spencer

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Overview

Proposed framework enhances discharge summary communication in primary care, highlighting interprofessional education.

Key Points

  • Effective hospital discharge communication minimizes risks for patients post-discharge, improving safety and care quality.
  • Utilizing standardised discharge templates can lead to insufficient context, impacting complex patient care critically.
  • Developing a framework for interprofessional education can strengthen understanding among discharge summary authors and primary care providers.
  • Collaborative efforts in creating this framework aim to enhance communication across the primary-secondary care interface.

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Boddy et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68d4204e713b0b5dfea69077https://doi.org/10.1017/s1463423625100327
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