This is the first study to show that medicine residents use "memory" as the most common method for remembering discharge tasks.
These data reinforce the need for a formalized tool, such as a checklist, that residents can rely on to complete important discharge tasks.
Increasing EHR checklist use was correlated with usefulness ( r =.85, p <.001), confidence (r =.81, p <.001), and efficiency (r =.87, p <.001).The EHR checklist reminded physicians to complete discharge tasks, improved confidence, and increased process efficiency.
When comparing their ability to perform certain discharge tasks before and after the intervention however, participating residents stated that their skills in conducting medication reconciliation had not significantly improved.
Based on the results of a pre- and post-workshop survey focused on assessing students' independence in carrying out 10 discharge tasks, including medication reconciliation, students reported significant increases in independence in conducting medication reconciliation.
Discussing how to run a mission-driven nonprofit, Peter Drucker, the great strategy guru of the 20th century, wrote: A business has discharged its task when the customer buys the product, pays for it, and is satisfied with it.
Beyond regaling regular clients on the telephone with insincere romantic flattery (anachronistically, she doesn't use a cell phone or a beeper but relies on public pay phones when out of the house), she discharges her tasks without the usual teasing wiles.
The Executive Council of Dubai: "formed by Law No. 3 for 2003 issued by the late Sheikh Maktoum Bin Rashid Al Maktoum to assist the Ruler in discharging his tasks and exercising his powers.
Once tamed by the C.I.A., she is an unstoppable lethal weapon who discharges her task with a machinelike efficiency.
Under these instructions, Nichols remained free to discharge his task of eliciting the statements in myriad less direct ways.
He thanked the jury for discharging their task "assiduously" in a case which could not have been easy.
