“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.
discharge report summarizing a mandated period of care