Impact of regionalized care on concordance of plan and preventable adverse events on general medicine services.

Background: Dispersion of inpatient care teams across different medical units impedes effective team communication, potentially leading to adverse events (AEs).

Objective: To regionalize 3 inpatient general medical teams to nursing units and examine the association with communication and preventable AEs.

Design: Pre-post cohort analysis.

Readability of patient discharge instructions with and without the use of electronically available disease-specific templates.

Objective: Low health literacy is common, leading to patient vulnerability during hospital discharge, when patients rely on written health instructions. We aimed to examine the impact of the use of electronic, patient-friendly, templated discharge instructions on the readability of discharge instructions provided to patients at discharge.

Materials And Methods: We performed a retrospective cohort study of 233 patients discharged from a large tertiary care hospital to their homes following the implementation of a web-based "discharge module," which included the optional use of diagnosis-specific templated discharge instructions.