Computer-generated patient-tailored discharge document 139 5. Conclusion In this pilot study a novel discharge procedure, using patient-tailored discharge information, was demonstrated to be equivalent to conventional discharge information, and was evaluated as easier to use. A positive trend was observed for patients who initiated teleconsultation with a healthcare question after discharge. This may suggest that for this subgroup the patient-tailored discharge tool can lead to lowering the threshold to contact healthcare providers and consequently leading to improvements in care. However, further research is warranted to better evaluate this effect. Acknowledgments: We would like to thank the late R.T. van Domburg for his assistance and guidance in this research. Also, we would like to thank the nurse practitioners and nurses from the ward to cooperate with this research. Ethical approval: The Medical Ethics Committee of our institution reviewed the study (MEC-2015-744) and deemed this study as not subjected to the Dutch Medical Research Involving Human Subjects Act and hence no formal approval was required. Guarantor: AW, the first author, takes full responsibility of this article. Contributorship: This research was part of the nurse practitioner program of AW, therefore AW researched literature and conceived the study with the help of JH, RB and GB. AW, JH, RB and ML were involved in protocol development, gaining ethical approval, patient recruitment and data analysis. AW wrote the first draft of the manuscript. All authors reviewed and edited the manuscript and approved the final version of the manuscript. Declaration of conflicting interests: The authors declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. Funding: The authors received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. 8
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