Abstract

ALEMAN LAGE, María del Carmen; RIOS MASSABOT, Norma Eneida  and  HERNANDEZ ROMERO, Francisco. Dual purpose of the hospital discharge report in "Hermanos Ameijeiras" hospital. Rev Cubana Salud Pública [online]. 2009, vol.35, n.3. ISSN 0864-3466.

The need of keeping higher number of medical histories in some premises for archiving and of locating as fast as possible the valuable information on previous stays at hospital if needed, prompted the carrying out of a study to solve this difficulty, which recommended to replace the present discharge form by another custom-designed formulary called Hospital discharge report. The working standards to draw documents out two years after the patient hospitalization were set. From January 2000 on, "Hermanos Ameijeiras" hospital replaced the discharge form by the Discharge Report and included it in the automation project of the medical history department. After eight years of Discharge Report implementation with two objectives: elimination of documents from the medical histories and creation of a basic register to get quality information for decision-making, the evaluation presented in this paper yielded good results.

Keywords : Discharge report; medical history archives; hospital indicators.

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