Discharge summary
Question: If a specialist documents a "possible, probable, suspect" in his assessment and the Hospitalist doesn't include the "possible, probable, suspect" DX in discharge summary does the specialist need to do his own discharge summary or do we query the hospitalist to get the DX included in discharge summary. Right now how it stands if the "possible, probable, suspect" DX needs to be stated again in Discharge summary.
Comments
The Primary Attending is responsible for bringing dx's that are made by consultants into their dx's and hopefully to the discharge summary. We generally query the primary team to ask them do they agree with the dx made by the consultant.
Jeff