Implementing Patient-Oriented Discharge Summaries (PODS): A Multisite Pilot Across Early Adopter Hospitals

Overview

Journal Healthc Q

Specialty Health Services

Date 2016 May 3

PMID 27133607

Citations 17

Authors

Shoshana Hahn-Goldberg

Karen Okrainec

Cynthia Damba

Tai Huynh

Davina Lau

Joanne Maxwell

Ryan McGuire

Lily Yang

Howard B Abrams

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Abstract

Communication gaps when patients transition from hospital to either home or community can be problematic. Partnership between Toronto Central Local Health Integration Network (TC LHIN) and OpenLab addressed this through the Patient-Oriented Discharge Summaries (PODS) project. From January through March 2015, eight hospital departments across Toronto came together to implement the PODS, a tool previously developed through a co-design process involving patients, caregivers and providers. This paper presents data on how the hospitals came together and the impact of PODS on the patient and provider experience across these hospitals and discusses it implications.

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