Title Facilitating patient understanding of discharge instructions : workshop summary / Joe Alper and Lyla M. Hernandez, rapporteurs ; Roundtable on Health Literacy, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies

Published Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource (1 PDF file (xv, 59 pages)) : illustrations Contents Overview of Issues Involved in Creating Better Discharge Instructions -- Inpatient Discharge Summaries -- Outpatient After-Visit Summaries -- Approaches to Developing Improved Discharge Instructions -- Reflections on the Workshop -- Appendix A: Workshop Agenda -- Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers Summary The Roundtable on Health Literacy brings together leaders from academia, industry, government, foundations, and associations and representatives of patient and consumer interests who work to improve health literacy. To achieve its mission, the roundtable discusses challenges facing health literacy practice and research and identifies approaches to promote health literacy through mechanisms and partnerships in both the public and private sectors. To explore the aspects of health literacy that impact the ability of patients to understand and follow discharge instructions and to learn from examples of how discharge instructions can be written to improve patient understanding of--and hence compliance with--discharge instructions, the Roundtable on Health Literacy held a public workshop. The workshop featured presentations and discussions that examined the implications of health literacy for discharge instructions for both ambulatory and inpatient facilities. Facilitating Patient Understanding of Discharge Instructions summarizes the presentations and discussions of the workshop. This report gives an overview of the impact of discharge instructions on outcomes, and discusses the specifics of inpatient discharge summaries and outpatient after-visit summaries. The report also contains case studies illustrating different approaches to improving discharge instructions Notes Title from PDF title page Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes This activity was supported by contracts between the National Academy of Sciences and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (HHSP233200900537P); California Dental Association; East Bay Community Foundation (Kaiser Permanente); Eli Lilly and Company; Health Resources and Services Administration (HHSH25034004T); Humana; Johnson & Johnson; Merck and Co., Inc.; Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion; and UnitedHealth Group. The views presented in this publication are those of the rapporteur and do not necessarily reflect the views of the organizations or agencies that provided support for the activity Version viewed April 6, 2015 Subject Hospitals -- Admission and discharge -- Congresses Hospitals -- After care -- Congresses Health literacy -- Congresses Hospitals -- After care. Patient Discharge Summaries Aftercare POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare. Health literacy. Hospitals -- Admission and discharge. Hospitals -- After care. Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings. Conference papers and proceedings. Actes de congrès. Form Electronic book Author Hernandez, Lyla M., author Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Roundtable on Health Literacy, issuing body. Discharge Instructions and After-Visit Summaries (Workshop) (2014 : Washington, D.C.) ISBN 9780309307383 0309307384 9780309307390 0309307392

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