Abstract
Hospitalist systems make it increasingly common for responsibility for a patient to
be passed from one physician to another. During such transfers, patients’ outcomes
and satisfaction can benefit from better communication between hospitalists and the
primary care physicians whose patients they care for. We propose 6 principles to guide
such communication, to ensure that critical information about patients is not lost
and to optimize the quality of care. We also discuss special considerations for patients
discharged to a skilled nursing facility or to home with home care.
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