Development and Evaluation of an Electronic Health Record-Based Best-Practice Discharge Checklist for Hospital Patients

The EHR checklist reminded physicians to complete discharge tasks, improved confidence, and increased process efficiency. 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.