Assessing Origins of Quality Gaps in Discharge Summaries: A Survey of Resident Physician Attitudes

Table 2

Utilization of discharge summary by clinical setting and training level.

	Intern number (%)	Resident number (%)	value
Frequency of discharge summary use in the outpatient setting
Never	10 (26.3)	8 (19.5)	<0.001
1–5 times	19 (50)	7 (17.1)
6–10 times	6 (15.8)	1 (2.4)
>10 times	3 (7.9)	25 (61.0)
Frequency of discharge summary use in the inpatient setting
Never	1 (2.6)	0 (0)	<0.001
1–5 times	8 (21.1)	4 (9.7)
6–10 times	9 (23.7)	2 (4.9)
>10 times	20 (52.6)	35 (85.4)