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Discharge summary
Definition
From:
NICE Guideline NG53 - Transition between inpatient mental health settings and community or care home settings
A summary of what happened during a person's admission and hospital stay from a medical perspective. It must include the diagnosis, outcomes of investigations, changes to treatment and the medicines started or stopped, or dosage changes and reasons why.
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