discharge summary

discharge report summarizing a mandated period of care

EXAMPLE 1 'Uniform Hospital Discharge Data Set' and 'Uniform Ambulatory Medical Care Minimum Data Set' in the USA

EXAMPLE 2 'Résumé de sortie standardisé' (RSS) or 'Résumé d'Unité Médicale' (RUM) in France

EXAMPLE 3 Nursing minimal data set (NMDS)

Note 1 to entry: A discharge summary may be provided to the subject of care

Note 2 to entry: 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

Note 3 to entry: 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.

Table 1. Associations of **discharge summary**
Specialization of			Generalization of
discharge report

discharge summaryUML Representation — Figure 1. discharge summary (UML Representation)