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Automated Versus Conventional Hospital Discharge Summaries and Prescriptions

NCT00670865 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 209

Last updated 2010-04-16

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether a semi-automated electronic patient discharge summary program leads to increased community physician and housestaff satisfaction and patient outcomes as compared to conventional discharge reports.

Conditions

  • Patient Discharge
  • Continuity of Patient Care
  • Medical Records Systems, Computerized
  • Hospital Information Systems

Interventions

OTHER

Electronic discharge summary system

The customized electronic discharge summary program will be used to generate patient discharge summaries.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Unity Health Toronto

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • David M Maslove, MD · Unity Health Toronto

  • Chaim M Bell, MD, PhD, FRCPC · St. Michael's Hospital; University of Toronto

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-05-31
Primary Completion
2008-06-30
Completion
2008-07-31

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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