Discharge Summary

A discharge summary is the clinical record handed to a patient when they leave the hospital, summarising the admission diagnosis, treatment given, investigations performed, procedures, medications prescribed on discharge, and advice for follow-up care. It closes out the formal record of the admission in a single, structured document.

Why it matters in a hospital

It is often the only document that carries a full account of the admission forward — to the patient's next doctor, to a specialist follow-up appointment, or to an insurer reviewing a claim. A vague, delayed or illegible discharge summary breaks that continuity of care, and can hold up an insurance settlement or leave the next clinician working from an incomplete picture of what actually happened during the stay. Families rely on it directly too: it is often the only document they're handed that explains, in plain terms, what happened, what medicines to continue, and when to come back — which matters as much for their confidence as for the next doctor's clinical picture.

How Trisvio handles it

In Trisvio the discharge summary is written against the admission, so it sits with the rest of the stay's record. Finalising it records who signed it off — a doctor, or a hospital administrator unless that right is removed — and locks it, and it prints as an A4 document the patient can carry to their next appointment. If the hospital has switched on the optional AI, the doctor can start from an AI first draft and edit it before finalising.