Self check

Is your discharge summary usable?

Eight yes or no questions about the last summary you signed. Two minutes. Nothing leaves this page.

No signup neededAbout 2 minutesScored here, not emailed

Scripts are off, so count by hand. Seven or eight yes answers is a strong summary. Four to six leaves the common gaps. Three or fewer asks the next clinician to reconstruct the admission. Either way, the twelve free phrases are at /twelve.

Question 1 of 8

Does it say which medications changed, and why?

Changed, held, stopped, started. The reason recorded next to the change, not left to the reader to infer.

Question 2 of 8

Does it name the person who will read each pending result?

A named clinician for every result still cooking at the moment of signature, and how the patient will be told.

Question 3 of 8

Does it give a date, rather than "follow up with PCP"?

A calendar date and a named service. The vaguer version reads as a plan and functions as a gap.

Question 4 of 8

Does it say what the patient should do if the symptom returns?

Return precautions in the patient's own reading level, written where the patient will actually find them.

Question 5 of 8

Does it record a code status discussion?

Who was in the room, what was decided, on what date, and whether the order was entered.

Question 6 of 8

Does it record teach back?

What the patient or the caregiver restated in their own words, and in which language it was done.

Question 7 of 8

Does it record capacity where a patient declined?

The four elements for that specific decision, plus the discussion that preceded it. Answer yes if no one declined anything.

Question 8 of 8

Would the next clinician know what to do in the first five minutes?

The honest test. A colleague opens it cold at 2am and either acts or starts phoning.

Nothing typed here is stored, sent or measured. There is no email field on this page, and the answers live in the tab until you close it. Examples are synthetic. Documentation language only: no diagnosis, no treatment, no drug.