All services should adopt the formated email the the family practice inpatient service uses. It clearly identifies who is caring for the patient, the admitting problem and the estimated length of hospitalization and who to contact. It allows you to email the resident(s) and use the info to plan for the post hospital discharge visit. The FPIS will add any person to the list at your clinic like a specified RN or scheduling person. It is simple. You can email Jack Chase MD who helped create it.

This is simply, costs no money, and provides better pt care. Please don't study it or have it die in endless committee meetings, just do it.

-Dan Wlodarczyk MD