discharge report summarizing a mandated period of care
“Uniform Hospital Discharge Data Set” and “Uniform Ambulatory Medical Care Minimum Data Set” in the USA.
“Résumé de sortie standardisé” (RSS) or “Résumé d'Unité Médicale” (RUM) in France.
Figure 142 — discharge summary (UML Representation)
A discharge summary may be provided to the subject of care.
One mandated period of care may be immediately followed by another; the next mandated care provider will then be a main recipient of the discharge summary.
Discharge summaries are often meant to be processed so as to categorize hospital stays according to a statistically designed classification (such as the Diagnosis-Related Groups (DRGs) or other systems), usually for funding or epidemiological purposes.