Research Article
Assessing Origins of Quality Gaps in Discharge Summaries: A Survey of Resident Physician Attitudes
Table 4
Attitudes toward discharge summary teaching and feedback by training level.
| | Intern number (%) | Resident number (%) | value |
| How many times have you had formal education on how to create a discharge summary? | | | | Never | 15 (39.5) | 14 (34.1) | 0.81 | 1-2 times | 18 (47.4) | 22 (53.7) | 3–5 times | 5 (13.1) | 4 (9.8) | >5 times | 0 (0) | 1 (2.4) | How many times have you received formal feedback from your attending or resident on discharge summaries you have authored? | | | | Never | 17 (44.7) | 14 (34.1) | 0.52 | 1-2 times | 10 (26.3) | 17 (41.5) | 3–5 times | 9 (23.7) | 9 (22.0) | >5 times | 2 (5.3) | 1 (2.4) | Do you think that a teaching session on how to author quality discharge summaries would be useful? | | | | Yes | 24 (63.2) | 18 (43.9) | 0.24 | No | 4 (10.5) | 7 (17.1) | I am not sure | 10 (26.3) | 16 (39.0) |
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