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Improving The Transition Of Care From The Hospital To Primary Care Providers For Patients With Heart Failure, John Blake
Improving The Transition Of Care From The Hospital To Primary Care Providers For Patients With Heart Failure, John Blake
Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Projects
The goal of this quality improvement project was to enhance the transition of care from the hospital to primary care providers for patients with heart failure at one acute care hospital in Tampa, Florida. A literature review revealed that discharge summaries have a pivotal communication role in the transition of care. Consequently, the electronically recorded discharge summaries relating to a random sample of 60 patients discharged from this hospital were audited for a trial period of six months (three months before and three months after an intervention by the DNP candidate to encourage the attending physicians to improve the transition …