Table VI.
Patient discharge instructions regarding medications grouped according to admitting service. Data are % (95% CI)
| Instructions | Admitting Service
|
Overall | P | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| General Medicine | Cardiology | General Surgery | |||
| Patient alerted to new medication or dose change | 37 (24–49) | 39 (27–51) | 57 (45–70) | 44 (37–51) | 0.039 |
| Patient instructed to stop previous medication | 10 (2–19) | 10 (0–20) | 19 (5–33) | 12 (7–18) | 0.44 |
| Patient given information to schedule follow-up appointment | 39 (27–51) | 59 (47–72) | 52 (39–64) | 50 (43–57) | 0.062 |
| Discrepancies found between patient instructions and dictated discharge summary | 38 (27–50) | 29 (18–40) | 38 (25–50) | 35 (28–41) | 0.42 |