Improving Care Transitions From Inpatient to Primary Care Pediatric Settings: A Resident-Led Quality Improvement Project

Abstract

Background: Breakdowns in the coordination of care across the health care continuum, such as poor transition and miscommunication among providers, may cause confusion regarding treatment plans, duplicate testing, medication discrepancies, missed physician follow-up, and ultimately, fragmented care, patient dissatisfaction and even adverse patient outcomes. We aimed to identify gaps in the current transition of care process from pediatric inpatient to outpatient …